Philippe Marc, PhD

Executive Director, Global Head of Integrated Data Sciences Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

Doctor MARC obtained a Ph.D. in Computational Science from Paris University before completing a systems biology-oriented postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of George Church at Harvard Medical School. He then worked for Aventis and Sanofi before joining Novartis a decade ago. At Novartis, his team developed tools to improve and expedite translational medicine data analysis and decision-making. In recent years, he was involved in shaping global projects like the Novartis data42 or the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research data strategy. His main driver is to use data to accelerate drug discovery and bring new drugs to patients faster.