Jean-Philippe RocherHead of Discovery - Chemistry

Dr. Rocher is responsible for IP and for all chemistry activities including CMC, scale-up and formulation, medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, compound library management and activities linked to developability. He has extensive experience in drug discovery and returns to Addex from Pierre Fabre where he was Director of CNS Programs from March 2014 to May 2018. Joining Addex at its inception in 2002, Dr. Rocher established the Company’s chemistry capabilities and built its small molecule allosteric modulator chemistry platform. He played a pivotal role in the success of both internal and partnered programs, including the discovery of dipraglurant and ADX71149, both of which progressed into Phase 2 clinical development. Prior to joining Addex, Dr. Rocher was Director of Chemistry at Devgen NV (Gent, Belgium), Senior Research Scientist for GlaxoSmithKline KK (Tsukuba, Japan), Scientific Project Leader in CNS at Mitsubishi Tanabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Head of Drug Discovery Unit for Battelle (Geneva, Switzerland). He started his career as a Research Scientist in the Dermatology Research Center of Galderma (Sophia‑Antipolis, France) following a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharm D at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lyon (France). He is a co‑author of more than 40 research publications and patents.