Pascal Mayer Email & Phone Number

Riom, FR

Riom, Auvergne, FR

Riom, Auvergne, FR

- Scientific and business strategy definition- Business plan and operational planning- Fund raising activities- Company creation- Business and partnership development

Strasbourg, Grand Est, FR

Affiliated to ISIS, Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires. https://isis.unistra.fr/about-isis-2/

https://www.usias.fr/en/

Scientific, technological, strategic and managerial consultancy services

- General and strategic management as #2 of the company. Co-authored the business plan that enabled successful fund raising of 3M€ from French private and corporate investors in 2012. In charge of international business development. - Championed the reorientation of the business model from microbiology R&D tool provider to high value diagnostic and.

- In charge of company creation and shut-down, fund raising with governmental authorities, general and technological management, market definition, scientific strategy and key technological innovations. - Management of the scientific team (1 scientist, 1engineer, and 1 technician). - Successfully lead commercial activities- Developed neuro-genetic.

• In charge of the scientific strategy, advanced scientific and technological input and innovations, and scientific issues with investors and external collaborators, in particular in the field of medical genetics.
• Participated (transiently hands-on) in the development of the technological concepts to enable, among others, 100 million bases per second sequencing instruments, fast “single test-tube” genome wide genotyping methods.
• Defined the R&D strategy and the initial technology development project; designed the laboratories.
• Hired and build up the scientific team (~36 people). Managed 5 direct reports (lab-manager and department heads: chemistry, molecular biology, bio-informatics, instrumentation and micro-fluidics) and transiently up to.
• Initiated and followed a collaboration with University of Ottawa (physics of DNA colony growth) and Imperial College London (one PhD student direct co-supervision, statistical genetic data analysis)
• co-inventor of 2 patents, co-authored 1 peer-reviewed publication

• Championned the development of a new massively parrallel DNA sequencing method and animated the team of 10 scientists and technicians working on the invention and supervised directly 2 research technicians.
• Initiated external collaborations on microfluidics with IMT, Neuchatel, Switzerland, and on polymer dynamics with the department of physics, University of Ottawa, Canada.
• Developed biochemical assays, fluorescent detection methods, automated setup and software (real-time image analysis and multi threaded automation, C++ under Windows NT4 ).
• co-inventor of 2 patents, co-authored of 1 peer-reviewed publication.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• In charge of providing the company with new proprietary genomics methods.
• Initiated and planned the development of a new massively parrallel DNA sequencing method.
• co-inventor of 2 patents.

• In charge of the video-microscopy developments in the framework of an European project aiming to develop new DNA separation methods.
• Pioneered a new method for electrophoretic separation of chromosomal DNA and various colloidal particles based on magnetically structured ferrofluid arrays in a micro-capillary electrophoresis setup.
• Wrote real-time video-images acquisition software for scientific use (C++ code under X/UNIX).
• Invented a method and wrote software to analyze video-microscopy images of moving fuzzy objects (DNA molecules) using spatio-temporal correlation maps.
• Co-inventor of 1 patent, co-authored 1 peer-reviewed publication

Ottawa, On, CA

• In charge of the characterization of gel electrophoresis of single stranded DNA. in order to optimize DNA sequencing methods.
• Wrote software (8,000 lines of C++ code under MS-Windows) to measure the migrated distance of DNA fragments on scanned autoradiogram.
• Demonstrated an artifact in velocity measurements performed in denaturing polyacrylamide gels and invented a method to properly measure the velocities.
• Showed that and how a new free solution DNA separation method could dramatically enhance DNA sequencing methods.
• Wrote a macromolecular dynamics simulation program with an assembler code core.
• Supervised undergraduate students.

Doctorat (Phd), Biophysique Macromoléculaire

Company Creation And Management, General Management And Business Administration

Master (Dea), Molecular Biology

Education record