Celine Bouquet

Business Development Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases at Roche

Speaker

Celine Bouquet is the BD Head of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases, Basel at Roche. Celine oversees the partnering transactions in these therapeutic areas and works closely with Roche’s internal research and development organization to identify opportunities that complement the Roche portfolio.

She brings knowledge and experience from having led deals herself in various therapeutic areas while in Roche Pharma Partnering as well as her prior role, where she was overseeing portfolio prioritization, strategy setting and external alliances in the R&D organization from early discovery to Ph2.

Celine joined Roche in 2012 and was heading the “Institut Roche”, dedicated to developing collaborative projects with academic partners to accelerate the transfer of basic research discoveries into innovative therapies in France. Prior to joining Roche, Celine gained experience and network across biotech, academia and tech transfer.

An Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon fellow, Celine holds a PhD in neuroscience from University Paris 6 and did her postdoctoral training in neuro-ophthalmology at UCSF.