Serge Braun

AFM-Telethon, France

Biography

Serge Braun is a Scientific Director of AFM-Telethon since 2005, the French Muscular Dystrophy Association and President of Genosafe, a CRO company dedicate to QC of biotherapeutic products. He has obtained his degree in Pharmacy, PhD in Pharmacology from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neuromuscular Center, School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. In 1995, he has joined Transgene SA (Strasbourg, France), the largest French biotech company, where he became Vice-President Research and developed his career in the field of gene therapy of genetic diseases and of immunotherapy of cancer. He was also Co-Founder of Neurofit; a contract research organization specialized in preclinical testing of both the central and the peripheral nervous system. He is a Member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy.