Eric Claassen
Co-founder & CEO of ViroNovative BV
 

Eric is 20% academic and 80% entrepreneur.
In the latter part he is active as: President of the
 Supervisory Board of several start-ups as well as
 CEO/Statutory director of ViroNovative BV,
Coronovative BV, Viroclinics BV (all in Rotterdam with
Prof. Dr. Ab Osterhaus) and ML Consultancy BV.
On the academic part Eric was recently appointed as
professor in “Knowledge Valorisation in the Life
Sciences” at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.

After graduating cum laude in Medical Biology, Eric attained his PhD in Medicine some 30 months later in 1987 and spent 9 years at TNO Prevention and Health (vaccines and auto-immunity) after which period he became
R&D director and deputy CEO at the Dutch Institute for Animal Science and Health. Since 2001 he combines many functions all related to his main focus on research management, valorisation and business development in life sciences with a special emphasis on immunology, microbiology, virology & vaccines.

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