Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001558370-25-003806
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Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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Doctoral training in Molecular Genetics at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of California, Berkeley. She has authored over 50 original peer reviewed scientific papers and invited articles, and is an inventor of over a dozen patents. Dr. Higgins also serves as a non-executive director on the Board of Arcus Bioscience.
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Elisabeth Svanberg is a Non-Executive Independent member of our Board of Directors since April 28, 2020. Dr. Svanberg received her MD and PhD from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and is a Board-Certified General Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery. Dr. Svanberg joined Serono International in 2000, initially in the field of metabolism, and subsequently held roles of increasing responsibilities before joining Bristol Myers Squibb in the United States in 2007. At BMS, Dr. Svanberg served as Development Leader for a first-in-class novel diabetes medicine, and subsequently as Head of Medical Affairs for the Intercontinental region. In 2014, Dr. Svanberg joined Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a Johnson & Johnson company) as Vice President, Head of the Established Products group where she was managing a portfolio of 90 products, used by an estimated 150 million patients globally. Dr. Svanberg subsequently served as Chief Development Officer at Ixaltis, and as Chief Medical Officer at Kuste Biopharma, specialty pharmaceutical companies developing proprietary therapeutics to treat genitourinary (GU) disorders with unmet medical need. Dr. Svanberg is a partner at Ventac Partners (since 2023) and also serves as a non-executive director on the Boards of Egetis (formerly PledPharma) (since 2017), LEO Pharma (since 2022), and EPICS Therapeutics (since 2022), including membership of the remuneration committee.
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Jérôme Contamine is a Non-Executive Independent member of our Board of Directors since April 26, 2022. Mr. Contamine served as Chief Financial Officer of Sanofi for more than nine years from 2009 until 2018. Prior to joining Sanofi, he was Chief Financial Officer of Veolia from 2000 to 2009. He previously held various operating functions at Total, and served four years as an auditor at the Cour des Comptes (the supreme body responsible for auditing the use of public funds in France). Mr. Contamine is a