Alain Bernard's Biography

Alain Bernard, Vice President, UCB Pharma SA

Dr. Alain Bernard is currently Vice-President, Global Portfolio of UCB‘ s technical operations managing the prioritization and governance of the different projects. Prior to that role he was in charge of overseeing process developments for new chemical and new biological entities as well as for lifecycle management of marketed products. He joined UCB in 2006, from Serono where he was Director of Process Development. He had joined Serono in 1998 and was formerly responsible for the biotechnology department in the R&D function. Prior to that move, he had been working at the Glaxo-Wellcome Institute of Molecular Biology. He holds a PhD in biochemical engineering and worked both in the US and Europe on process/product development and reactor design for a variety of biotechnological processes. He has authored or co-authored many publications in biotechnology.