Gael Hedou
Chief Executive Officer ad interim
Natural Sciences
Relief Therapeutics
Switzerland
Biography
Dr. Gaël Hédou was born in France in 1972. He graduated in Neuroscience from the University of Strasbourg (FR) in 1997. He then completed his PhD in Natural Sciences at the ETH in Zurich (CH) in the field of drug addiction. He pursued his academic research with a postdoc at the ETH studying brain plasticity and repair before joining the pharmaceutical industry. He started his industrial career at GlaxoSmithKline, Verona (IT) in 2004 were he led a laboratory supporting both preclinical and clinical projects in Psychiatric diseases. He joined Merck Serono KGaA in 2008 to participate in the implementation of the drug discovery and development strategy in Parkinson’s disease. Under his supervision, drug discovery projects became the basis for a spin off company of Merck Serono KGaA. Dr. Hedou has acquired expertise in the field of drug discovery and project management through different positions of increasing responsibility. He is one of the co-founder of Relief Therapeutics SA were he supported mainly the strategical positioning and fundraising campaign of the company as a managing partner and administrator.
Research Interest
Natural Sciences & NeuroSciences
