Benedicte Menn (pictured) has joined Oxford University Innovation, the commercialisation office of Oxford University, as a technology transfer manager from a France-based peer.
Previously, Menn was a technology transfer manager focused on healthcare at Satt IDF Innov, joining in 2013. Satt IDF Innov is the tech transfer office for universities and research institutions based in Île-de-France, the region around and including Paris.
Menn holds a DPhil in life sciences from Curie Institute Paris, where she focused on researching neurotrophic receptors and neuronal differentiation. She then took a post-doctoral position at the University of California, San Francisco, conducting research on adult neural stem cells and experimental models of demyelinating diseases.
Menn also co-founded a biomedical startup for neurological diseases as lead scientist. In 2011, she launched her own consultancy helping biotechnology developers plan and manage their preclinical studies.
– Photo courtesy of Oxford University Innovation
