Céline Druart

Executive Director

Pharmabiotic Research Institute

Céline Druart obtained her PhD degree in biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences from UCLouvain (Belgium) in 2014. She then joined the research group of Patrice Cani to lead a 3-year project devoted to the development and exploitation of the promising results regarding the beneficial effects of Akkermansia muciniphila, a commensal gut bacterium. Taking advantage of her Master’s in Management, she worked for 3 years as Scientific and Business Project Manager at A-Mansia Biotech, a biotech company developing health products based on A. muciniphila. Her main duties there were the implementation and coordination of their preclinical and clinical programs, regulatory affairs and IP dossiers. In July 2021, she joined the Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI) as Microbiome Project Manager. She is in charge of the Regulatory Science activities of the organization; coordinating Task Group work, and supporting PRI Regulatory Members in their development efforts.