Posted on February 21st, 2012

MDCPartners would like to introduce two new members of their expanding team

MDCPartners is constantly working on ideas to improve both ta-Scan and normScan as both business and regulatory intelligence tools. As such, we are pleased to announce two new members of our team to help us with our continued improvement efforts:

Joke Lievens, PhD
Business Consultant

Joke initially trained as a research scientist at the KULeuven Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, where she completed a thesis on the development of HDL-cholesterol raising gene therapies for cardiovascular diseases. After obtaining her PhD, she held positions in the biopharmaceutical industry and academia in Belgium and France.

For INSERM/GIS Institut des maladies rares she has managed a large EU project on rare diseases and worked on the integration of next generation DNA sequencing in rare diseases research.

In the biopharmaceutical industry she has been involved in the development of targeted therapies for cancer. She held responsibility and developed operational expertise in the management of intellectual property portfolios and the search and evaluation of licensing opportunities for oncology drugs.

Besides her PhD in medical sciences, Joke holds a masters degree in bioengineering and is preparing a post-graduate degree in pharmaceutical medicine.

She is fluent in English, French and Dutch.

Jorge Saint-Aubyn, MSc
IT Project Manager

Jorge’s scientific background can be explained with his degree in Applied Mathematics from Simon Bolivar University (USB Venezuela) with courses in statistics from Lund University (Sweden).
In addition he obtained a MSc Degree in Operations Research from Maastricht University (The Netherlands) with courses in Machine Learning and Text Mining.

Along his career, he successfully completed assorted research in the fields of data analysis, IT industry and bioinformatics. For Zi-Decuma, Lund he trained as a researcher on a project implementing statistical methods to improve the clarity of handwriting on electronic tablets. He worked for CESMA (Statistics and Mathematical Software Center) at USB reviewing the implementions of Bayesian Kriging interpolation applied to produce digital maps of monthly rainfall for Venezuela and prepared the data input.

During his Master Thesis research, he investigated cardiac proteins and miRNA interactions that affect cardiac diseases using bioinformatics tools in collaboration with the Cardiology Department at Maastricht University. His interests rely mainly in the power of data visualization and information discovering.

He speaks Spanish, English and French.

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