Technology transfer mainly in Medtech (digital health, medical devices) of innovations from research laboratories and university hospitals - detection and evaluation of innovative technologies - setting up investment projects - maturation - intellectual property strategy and portfolio management (patent and software) - support for start-up creation (market access strategy, regulatory aspects, etc.)

Mon poste consiste à accompagner les plates-formes technologiques des domaines santé/ bio / pharma /IT issues des laboratoires de recherche publics pour :- Structurer leur offre de services et la positionner sur leur marché- Définir la tarification de ces offres - Développer des supports marketing à destination de leurs clients (plaquette de présentations, campagne emailing, développement de charte graphique et logos, ...)

KTM is the European number-one in developing serious games, which are training software that mix e-learning and video games. I joined KTM’s team as innovative project leader to develop my experience in R&D, funding and project management but also to discover a new scientific and technological field. My first mission was identifying previous R&D projects among their ongoing activities and then managing claim subsidies in the form of drafting technical and financial reports. Then, I planned an R&D roadmap to determine and prioritize the following year’s technological developments. It helped me develop an international network and find partners to co-develop new serious games based on innovative technologies and various devices. I was also project manager of 3DVOR (3D Virtual Operating Room), a multidisciplinary project with a budget of 3.6 M€. The aim of this project was to develop a 3D serious game dedicated to professional training in the operating room. KTM Advance collaborated with academic and other partners to design the game, which ultimately became multiplayer and in 3D. As project manager, I:- Managed KTM Advance’s multidisciplinary team (designers, developers, game designers, 3D character artists, …)- Coordinated consortium teams to guarantee compatibility between all production elements - Edited technical and financial reports to our public funders- Monitored time and budget

Ayming assists companies in improving cost management. As consultant in innovation, one of my tasks was lowering my clients’ innovation costs by assisting them with R&D Tax Incentive claims. This included:- Identifying, auditing, and analyzing customers’ innovative activities (interviewing research experts, analyzing scientific reports, state-of-the-art identification),- Obtaining governments and international research incentives or tax credit,- Drafting and editing financial and scientific reports,- Training teams.I worked with start-up companies as well as large multi-national organisations. As part of the Life Science industry team, I was involved in numerous funding applications for biotech, pharma and food clients. My primary clients in pharmaceutical industries were Abbott, AstraZeneca and MSD. I mainly advised them on their clinical trials and medicines manufacturing. I helped them make their French branch and innovative laboratories profitable. I also worked with food companies like Moet & Chandon Champagne, Remy Martin Cognac, Cointreau and Pernod Ricard. For example, with that last one, I worked with their human resources to improve their recruitment policy and enable them to hire higher-qualified candidates at no additional cost to them.

The Pays de la Loire regional agency helps its local companies develop their market and capital through innovation. I was hired to coordinate the design of a collaborative and multidisciplinary project in food and health industry: Manoe. With a budget about 1.8 M€, the aim of the Manoe project was to study allergens in the food industry. Our first goal was to develop food products designed for the general population, children allergic to peanuts, eggs, milk or wheat included. We also created new methods of analysis to detect allergens at low concentration. Then, a large multicentre clinical trial studied consequences of low doses of allergens reintroduction in children’s diet. When I began, a partnership was already defined, but I helped them organise the project by defining precise milestones, a work plan, deliverables and more to answer to a specific call for proposals from FUI (national French innovative fund). We obtained funding despite the very low success rate for this kind of funding (less than 50%). Then, we negotiated subsidies with a public financer (because the global project budget was 1.8 M€) and I coordinated the drafting of a consortium agreement to define intellectual property between partners. More information : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354109/

ID2Santé is a not-for-profit organisation serving the health-care industry. As consultant, my role included: - Promoting cooperation between research units and companies involved in nutrition R&D and health-related technologies. I assisted with a design innovative project validated by the cluster in food industry, Valorial. - Providing technological assistance and expertise in R&D projects.- Advising and coordinating a local network of core facilities in the fields of marine biology, agriculture/food-processing, human health and bioinformatics. I helped them obtain the IBISA label (Infrastructures for Biology, Health and Agronomy), which recognizes the best platforms in life sciences and biotechnology. My role was organising their offer, detecting where they excelled, and marketing a new range of innovative services.

Valorial is a regional cluster dedicated to the innovative food industry. Its main mission is to bring together large and small firms, research bodies and educational establishments to develop synergies and collaborative innovation projects. It also endorses innovative projects and thus increases their chance to win publicly-funded calls for projects. As project leader in this cluster, I encouraged the emergence of R&D projects by:- Identifying emerging markets in the food industry, - Animating brainstorming sessions around shared themes between companies and research laboratories, - Designing pluri-annual partnerships (describing tasks, defining milestones, analysing risks, creating budgets, negotiating intellectual property rights, …),- Promoting innovation and our innovative projects by lecturing at exhibitions and meeting other French and European clusters dedicated to the food industry.One notable Valorial project was named Rolavox. It began with Terrena, a big company that aimed to improve rabbits’ health and increase the quality of their meat. By participating in a Valorial taskforce, they met experts about algae and a research laboratory studying animal welfare. I helped them to define project milestones, budgets, and then obtain subsidies. Finally all together they created a new kind of rabbit food and Terrena’s meat is now naturally enhanced in omega-3.I also helped on project Gastralg where a regional SME wanted to develop a new range of innovative products thanks to molecular cuisine. Helped by many brainstormings and experts meetings in our network, we set up a project and the final results are “Perles de l’Océane” and “Perles de Saveur”. Small gel beads with a liquid centre with alginates and agar from local algae.

Ouest Valorisation is an organisation helping research laboratory to disseminate their results and transfer their innovative technologies. As European Project manager, I was assisting researchers to manage their projects funds by EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (proposal writing, consortium building, partner’s coordination, meeting organisation, minutes writing, follow-up through indicators, EC technical and financial report preparation …).

After working in public laboratories in France and UK, I choose to discover a research activity in a small and innovative company: AlphaBiotech. This SME produces and processes microalgae, micro-algal extract and health ingredients. They hired me to carry out studies to produce organic spirulina. I first needed to check specification to get European label for organic microalgae and to study which can of spirulina’s nutrients can be found in organic industry. Finally, I found substitute for most of spirulina’s culture medium except for nitrogen. For this last case, I had to study other fields like fruit & vegetables agriculture to identify and tests substitutes.

As I really liked my previous experiment in research unit, I decided to work as laboratory technician, in another laboratory, but in England this time. I was also assisting a PhD in his research about the role of vitamin E in the prevention of heart disease. My job was trying to increase accuracy of plasma levels of vitamin E’s HPLC analyses. Thus, I carried out a bibliographic review and many tests to get better results. As member of research’s team, I spend time with volunteers to interview them about their dietaries habits.

To continue to practice as laboratory technician, I decided to stay at the same research laboratory and to work on PhD study’s next results. I set up checking tests, by cell culture, in order to double check results found by E.L.I.S.A. and P.C.R. methods.

Oniris is a higher education and research establishment, dedicated to the safety of food, both biological and physico-chemical, and the quality and processing of animal productions. I have chosen this place to realise my first internship as laboratory technician. I was working with a PhD about the risk of transmitting Maedi Visna, a viral sheep disease caused by a lentivirus, during embryo transfer. My mission was to develop a P.C.R.’s (Polymerase Chain Reaction) protocol to detect ewe’s virus proteins