About Laurent Fraisse

In October 2019, Laurent joined the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initative (DNDi) as R&D director and executive team member. In this capacity he drives DNDi’s science strategy and oversees all worldwide research and clinical activities. Laurent joined Sanofi in 1999 after a ten-year tenure as a science leader at Elf Atochem. During his 20 years at Sanofi, he rose to serve as vice president for infectious diseases R&D, addressing medical needs in bacterial, parasitic and viral related infections. He then joined Evotec as executive vice president for infectious diseases with a mission to accelerate the development of the infectious diseases research pipeline and initiate new open innovation R&D initiatives.
Laurent graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie in Rennes, France, with a specialty in biochemistry, and holds a PhD in biotechnology from the Institut National Polytechnique in Toulouse, France.