Experience

ImCheck Therapeutics

• France
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Discovery Director

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France Leader and supervisor of research aiming to the discovery, selection and optimization of lead drug candidates. Lead the team of scientists/program champions involved in discovery phase to meet project timelines and ensure prioritization of early and late discovery programs.

• R&D Senior Scientist

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  Région de Marseille, France Project champion/biology leader of early pipeline projects. I designed and implemented assays allowing target validation and discovery of new target functions, up to the selection of antibody drug candidates.



Centre d'Information et de Soins de l'Immunodéficience Humaine (CISIH) - | Immuno-hematology Departm

• Clinical Research Associate

  • May 2013 - Dec 2017

  Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France Research Field: HIV, HCV and HBC In charge of on-site management of clinical trials (phase IIb and III) and observational cohorts along the ICH-GCP guidelines. I participated to transversal clinical trial set-up (feasibility study, forecasting trial budget and schedules), and brought molecular and experimental immunology expertise to the medical team allowing the implementation of retrospective clinical data analyses.



CRCM, INSERM U1068 Pôle Luminy

• Scientist

  • Feb 2008 - Jul 2012

  Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France Research Field: Cell stress and Pancreas adenocarcinoma I designed and executed research projects leading to the discovery of new players of pancreatic cancer promotion, allowing target validation for further therapeutic development (currently ongoing). I identified the new anti-cancer pathway of cancer cell cannibalism.



INSERM U624

• Post-doctoral scientist

  • 2004 - 2007

  Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France Research Field: Inflammation & Cancer (colorectal cancer) I brought my immunology expertise to a leader team of the cell stress field to study the role of cell stress molecules in inflammation-related cancer development



Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy

• Ph.D. Student

  • 1999 - 2003

  Marseille Research Field: Immunology (B cell development and related immune-deficiencies) My research focused on the characterization of the role of novel players of antibody quality control during human B cell differentiation. I collaborated with a team of pediatric hematologists and geneticists for the characterization of rare genetic disease associated pediatric immune deficiencies.



Institute of Child Health | Great Ormond Street Hospital

• Undergraduate internship

  • Feb 1998 - Sep 1998

  Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni Research Field : Immunology Experimental set-up of molecular biology screening (hetero-duplexing) for human genetic polymorphisms aiming to determine their association to atopic diseases. Awarded with the Summer Studentship, Institute of Child Health, London.