Genomic Vision strengthens team
Appoints chief finance officer and vice president of research and development
Prior to joining Genomic Vision, Martin was cfo at Cytomics Pharmaceuticals (2003–2008), a biopharmaceutical company he co-founded with Dominique Thomas (Research Director at the CNRS Centre for Molecular Genetics, Gif-sur-Yvette) and for which he led the first rounds of financing. Prior to this he worked for 10 years as a consultant for Syndex, an auditing firm.
Conseiller joined Genomic Vision in 2009 after working for more than 17 years as a senior manager at sanofi-aventis (primarily within the oncology division). He is a pioneer in the application of functional genomics to drug discovery (from drug target screening to clinical trials) and has designed and led several projects for drug screening (small molecules and gene therapy) in the fields of tumour suppression, DNA replication and tumour metabolism. He holds a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris. In 1997, he won the Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Research Prize for his work on the development of chimeric tumour suppressors for gene therapy of cancer.
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