Technology Transfer And Business Development Office
Linda Nait-Kaoudjt, Head of Office
The aim of the Technology Transfer Office is to develop partnerships with industrial partners and to increase contract volumes. In order to provide the necessary support and expertise to industrial partners, the mission of the Technology Transfer Office is to identify their medium/long-term strategic developments. At the same time, the Technology Transfer Office promotes the Institut Pasteur's inventive activities and thus contributes to its influence throughout the world.
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Biography
Linda Nait-Kaoudjt joined the Institut Pasteur in 2020 as Head of the Technology Transfer Office. With over ten years’ experience in business development, she is an expert in partnerships with industry. She spent the last six years at IQVIA (Quintles & IMS Health merger), a world leader in using data, technology, advanced analysis and human expertise to help life sciences companies advance healthcare and human health. Its mission is to develop partnerships and revenues for pharmaceutical companies, EBPs, medical device companies, investment funds, payers, and e-health.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 'S TEAM
Pascale Jordan,
Head of Transaction & Partnership
Pascale Jordan joined Institut Pasteur in 2023 as Global Partnership Contract Leader in the Technology Transfer & Entrepreneurship Office. She leads the Negociation and Contracts Division dedicated to easing and accelerating the contractualisation process with industrial partners. Understanding and making the link between the scientific project and the legal department is at the core of her endeavours. Her team is in charge of drafting and negotiating agreements for confidentiality, material transfer, collaborative research, as well as licensing or fee for services.
Biography
After completing a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Developmental Biology at the Université Paris-Saclay, Pascale worked as a financial analyst in a stock market company specialized in Biotech/Hightech. She then worked as Business Development Manager in various organizations (biotech start-up, Inserm-transfert, Pfizer, Zoetis). In this position, she developed and negotiated numerous research partnerships in different therapeutic fields and for different technologies, as well as technology transfer contracts. For the past 6 years, she has worked as a Business Development consultant for various biotech companies in France and abroad
Alexandre Batch,
Business Development & Entrepreneurship Manager
Alexandre Batch joined the Institut Pasteur in 2015 as a Business Development & Entrepreneurship Manager. Today, he heads the Startup team, supporting researchers throughout the business creation process. His team is responsible for raising awareness of entrepreneurship among researchers through the organization of events and the provision of dedicated training, accompanying researchers through all stages of creation and supporting the startups created in their industrial development.
Biography
Trained as a medicinal chemist, he did a postdoc in the United States before joining the pharmaceutical industry, working in Drug Discovery. After several years of research, he completed an MBA to combine science and business, in order to apply his skills to the creation and development of life science companies. He joined the first French Biocluster, supporting companies in their development.