Prior to joining Kurma, Vanessa was Vice President, R&D Strategic Planning at Ipsen, leading project and portfolio management as well as R&D outsourcing.
She began her career as a venture analyst at CDC Innovation, a Paris-based venture capital fund, and later joined a California-based start-up with responsibility for business development. Vanessa graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure (Cachan) in Biology and from Pasteur Institute (Paris) in Immunology.
