Joël Crouzet, PhD

CEO & Chairman

Joël has more than 30 years of experience in the Biotech and the Pharma industry. He has been the cofounder and CEO of InnaVirVax, a French biotech that developed a candidate therapy for HIV infection up to phase 2 clinical trial. Joël has had various positions in several biotech companies (Genetica, AP cells, Neurotech and Alfact Innovation) and in the Pharma (Rhone-Poulenc Rorer now part of Sanofi Aventis) and has been involved actively in 5 different drug candidates studied in the clinic, up to phase 3. Scientific by training, Joël is a co-author of more than 60 peer reviewed publications and 30 patent families in various therapeutic fields. 

Joël is graduated from AgroParisTech and holds a PhD from Université de Paris. 

the Management team

CEO & Chairman

Head of Medicinal Chemistry

Head of Biology & Pharmacology

Scientific Founder

Director of Research 1st class at the CNRS, directing the multidisciplinary Chemistry & Biology, Modeling & Immunology for Therapy (CBMIT) team within the CNRS and the Université de Paris

Board Of Directors​

President and CEO, Notch Therapeutics - Independent Board member

CEO & Chairman

CEO, Domain Therapeutics - Board member

Founder & CEO of Parthenon Therapeutics - Board member

Managing partner, Kurma Life Sciences Partners - Board member

Principal, Kurma Life Sciences Partners - Board member

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Fountain Healthcare Partners - Board member

Senior Associate, Fountain Healthcare Partners - Board observer

Scientific and Clinical Advisors

Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board

Stanford Univ, School of Med (US) | Rheumatology-SLE

John Hopkins Medicine (US) | Rheumatology-SLE

UMC Amsterdam (NL) | Rheumatology-SLE

Director of Research 1st class at the CNRS, directing the multidisciplinary Chemistry & Biology, Modeling & Immunology for Therapy (CBMIT) team within the CNRS and the Université de Paris

Professor of Target and Systems Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Gardiner Professor of Biochemistry, and Deputy Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow

Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer at the University of Montréal