Personal statement

Marie Claire is part of the Executive Leadership Team at CIS. Her role is to work with the Leadership Team to bring strategic oversight and operational delivery to the department, working across a range of special projects and activities including knowledge exchange, finance and governance. Prior to joining CIS, she was Head of Operations at Stratified Medicine Innovation Centre. She has a commercial background in a biotech SME environment having co-founded, fund-raised and ran a drug-delivery company for ca 10 years. She is experienced across all aspects of this type of environment with a broad experience base in business development and contractual engagement, from evaluation, collaborations and licensing, working with the majority of the top 20 pharmas across a range of opportunities. Marie-Claire has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, held academic positions in France, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 2006, she was awarded the Gannochy Trust award for Innovation. She currently sits on the Life Sciences Industry Leadership Group (LS-ILG) and Chairs the Governance Group.