Philippe Riou

Philippe is a trained Cancer Cell Biologist with over 15 years’ experience, gained through translational and drug discovery research programs across academia and more recently biotech in the UK. After receiving his Ph.D. in Oncology from the University of Paris XI in France, Philippe initially completed fundamental postdoctoral studies at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and at King’s College London, where he focused on unravelling the molecular details of complex regulatory mechanisms. Following this, Philippe moved to the London Research Institute and later to the Francis Crick Institute, where he contributed to a wide range of preclinical translational research studies, as academic collaborator, to support a drug discovery effort between charity funded and pharma organisations, with a particular focus on biomarker identification. More recently, Philippe worked as Head of Translational Biology at Novintum Bioscience Ltd., a small biotech company within the field of cancer metabolism.