Serge BRAUN
AFM-Telethon, FRANCE
Biography
Serge Braun, PharmD, is 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 obtained his degree in Pharmacy and a Ph.D in Pharmacology from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France; was a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuromuscular Center, School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. In 1995, he 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 testings of both the central and the peripheral nervous system. He is member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy.