Rudy Dekeyser
Partner
General Science
CRG
Spain
Biography
Rudy Dekeyser is managing partner of the LSP Health Economics Fund, a private equity fund investing in European and US medical device, diagnostic and digital health companies. Prior to joining LSP, Rudy was Managing Director of VIB, the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, which he helped establish in 1995. At VIB, Rudy was also responsible for all business development activities. Under his leadership, VIB has built a large patent portfolio, signed license/R&D agreements with hundreds of companies all over the world and established a dozen start-up companies which raised more than 500M€. Rudy was also instrumental in founding and building bio-incubators, bio-accelerators and a 350 member biotech association. Rudy is/has been member of the board of more than a dozen private and listed biopharma, diagnostic, agbio and medtech companies. He is advisor to several technology transfer organizations, co-founder of ASTP and chair of the Technology Transfer Board of the prestigious EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.
Research Interest
General Science