Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Prof. Stefan Catsicas has been the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Nestlé S.A. since September 1, 2013. Prof. Catsicas is the President and Founder at Tilocor Life Sciences. He was the Vice President at Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Prof. Catsicas was the Department Head and managed research and preclinical programs in Neurosciences at the Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology and served as Professor and Chairman of Cellular Biology at the School of Medicine in Lausanne.

He was then appointed the Vice-President and Research Director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he still holds the Chair of Cellular Engineering. In addition to his academic activities Prof. Catsicas has promoted and advised biotechnology companies in Europe and in the United States and has been an Advisor for investment funds such as the Pictet Biotech Fund. He is a Director of Therasis, Inc. and Eclosion SA.

Prof. Catsicas received a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of Lausanne and did postdoctoral work at the Research institute of Scripps Clinic.