Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles

Didier de Chaffoy

Didier R.G.G. de Chaffoy de Courcelles (Turnhout, 19 November 1953) is a Belgian scientist and businessman. He is Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery Europe, and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD), a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica (Beerse, Belgium).

Education

Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles went to highschool at the Broeders van Liefde in Turnhout. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). He obtained a Master of Science and a PhD of Science (D.Sc.), as well as an accreditation for teaching and research at academic institutions (G.U.O., venia legendi), from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

Career

He joined the Janssen Research Foundation in 1981, where he became Director of Biochemistry, Senior Director of Pharmacology, Vice President of Biological Research, and Senior Vice President of Discovery Research until 2008. In addition, he was a member of the J&JPRD Board (Raritan, New Jersey, USA), the Board of Directors of Janssen Pharmaceutica (Beerse, Belgium) and the Sir James Black Foundation (London, United Kingdom). In 2009 he founded his own company Oto Therapeutics and started teaching at Hasselt University.

See also

• Paul Janssen, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica

Source

• Janssen Pharmaceutica
• Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles
• 'De aspirine zou vandaag nooit meer goed gekeurd geraken' (Article in Trends)

Persondata
Name	De Chaffoy de Courcelles, Didier
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Short description	businessman, scientist
Date of birth	19 November 1953
Place of birth	Turnhout, Belgium
Date of death
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