Jérôme Van Biervliet | Managing Director, VIB Innovation & Business, VIB, Belgium

Dr. Van Biervliet has 20 yrs cross-disciplinary experience in the medical, business and biotech environments. Prior to his position as Managing Director in the general management of VIB: 
• He trained as a veterinary internal medicine specialist at Cornell University, 
• Was accredited by the American College of Veterinary Internal medicine and 
• Continued with a PhD at VIB finishing with a land-mark paper in Science. 
• After his clinical and research training, Dr. Van Biervliet started as a consultant at Bain & Company, advising especially in private equity transactions. 

Over the last 10 years, he has been in various roles in the VIB Innovation and Business office of VIB. 
• As the Head of Business Development, Dr. Van Biervliet is responsible for the BD team driving all industry collaborations, licensing of VIB assets and strategic collaborations. 
• He was the founder and Head of VIB Discovery Sciences, an internal drug discovery unit at VIB with a team of industry-trained scientists creating a portfolio of innovative projects. 

Dr. Van Biervliet is currently Managing Director for VIB as an institute in a tandem with his colleague Christine Durinx and holds end-responsibility for all of the Innovation & Business activities.