Jean-Loup Romet-Lemonne
M.D., non-executive Chairman, is the Program Director at IUIS (International Union of Immunological Societies), and former President and CEO of BioBusiness.TV, first independent internet-TV channel focused on the Life Science Industry. He is the founder of IDM Pharma Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: IDMI now part of Takeda Oncology) a developer of anti-cancer immunotherapy drugs and vaccines. Jean-Loup is also a former senior scientist from the Cancer Biology Department at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and associate professor at the Medical School of Tours University, France.Helmuth Van Es
Ph.D., is managing director of BioConsilium, a strategic consultancy company for life sciences companies. Helmuth is co-founder of Galapagos (1998) a global drug discovery company. As part of the business development team of Galapagos, he negotiated and established multimillion dollar alliances with GSK, Bayer, Incyte, Pharmacia and Boehringer-Ingelheim. Helmuth is also co-founder of drug-discovery companies Audion Therapeutics (2008) and Effecta Pharma (2009) and member of the Advisory Board of Spinnovation a high tech analytical NMR company.
Geoff Lawton
Ph.D., former Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Roche UK, and Vice-president Chemistry and Preclinical Sciences within Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto, USA. Geoff is the co-inventor of Cilazapril ®, a marketed drug. He has extensive experience in drug discovery and provides advice to a number of small companies. He was the founding Research Director with Lectus Therapeutics. He is a founder of INMedD, a new medicine discovery social enterprise. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Peakdale Molecular and advised Prolysis, a british antibacterial company recently acquired by the Australian company Biota.




