
Jacques Dumas
Jacques Dumas joined Aicuris in 2024, bringing over 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical R&D across infectious diseases and oncology. Jacques has a proven track record of driving novel medicines from discovery to launch, including non-clinical development and CMC.
He previously served as Chief Scientific Officer at Arrakis Therapeutics, leading R&D efforts and scaling the organisation to support collaborations with Roche and Amgen. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientific Officer at Tetraphase (2015-2019) and Idenix (2014), two biotech companies in the anti-infective space. Early in his career, Jacques spent 15 years at Bayer Healthcare and seven years at AstraZeneca.
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