Yannick Plétan

Entering into the pharmaceutical industry in 1984 after leading a respiratory medicine department in a hospital and collaborating on research initiatives at INSERM for several years, Yannick Plétan headed the "Allergies and Respiratory Diseases" department at the headquarters in Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, before being appointed Medical Director of one of the French subsidiaries of Hoechst Roussel, companies which have now merged into the Sanofi Group. He was successively Chief medical officer, global Head of development and R&D strategy of the Pierre Fabre Research Institute; Head of the Medical and Scientific Division within the French subsidiary of the Pfizer group; and Country medical director of Roche France, where he founded the Roche Foundation for personalized healthcare in partnership with the University of Strasbourg.