Corentin Herbert

Senior Director, Translational Research @ Alentis Therapeutics

About

Strong leadership experience in international and multi-cultural context. Strong managerial skills, overseeing projects with cross-functional and multidisciplinary activities. Extensive experience in drug discovery and biomarker discovery in oncology, immune-oncology, fibrosis, inflammation, protein homeostasis, rare skeletal bone disorders. Very familiar with many modalities ranging from antibodies to therapeutic proteins and small molecules as well as oligosaccharides and antisense oligonucleotides. Result-oriented scientist, focused on data-driven decision making. Experience in clinical development phase I and phase II.

Country

City

France

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Skill

Vascular biology, Oncology, FGF/FGFR, Vascular biology, Fibrosis , Oncology, Biomarkers, Protein-protein interaction, Allostery, Protein degradation, Fibrosis and inflammation, Rare skeletal bone disorders, Biomarkers

Experience

Senior Director, Translational Research

Alentis Therapeutics

2023-9 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Bâle, Suisse

Oncology (ADC) & Fibrosis

Director Cell Biology & In Vitro, Rare Disease Research Unit, Pfizer Nice

Pfizer

2020-6 - 2023-8 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

• Leading the biologist's research group • Coordinating and overseeing preclinical drug discovery activities. • Deputy-head of the Pfizer Nice research site

Group Leader - in vitro pharmacology

Evotec

2015-4 - 2020-6 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Région de Toulouse, France

• Leading a research group a 20 biochemists & cellular biologists in oncology, immune-oncology, tumor microenvironment, inflammation, rare diseases… • Management of large drug discovery projects (transversal, cross-functional and multidisciplinary)

Group Leader

Sanofi

2010-2 - 2015-4 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Toulouse, France

• Management of a scientific group • Small molecules & biotherapeutics

Senior Research Scientist

Sanofi

2005-7 - 2010-1 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Toulouse (France)

- Project team leader in the Angiogenesis and Oncology field - Allosteric modulation of membrane targets

Post-Doc

Sanofi

2003-10 - 2005-3 · 1 yr 6 mos

Toulouse (France)

Post-doctoral position at Sanofi-Aventis R&D in the “Thrombosis and Angiogenesis” Department in Toulouse (France) for the “Study of the mechanism of action of small-molecules with FGF-Rs antagonistic activities”

PhD

Université Paul Sabatier and CNRS

1999-9 - 2003-8 · 4 yrs

Toulouse, France

PhD in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Dissertation about the cellular localization and the transcriptional regulation of an endopolygalacturonase from a plant pathogenic fungi during infection awarded by the silver medal of the French Academy of Agriculture.