Ivan Plavec

Dr. Ivan Plavec is a president and founder of Ascellna Life Science Group, a consulting firm supporting life science companies with innovative technologies and products. Ivan has over twenty-five years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry in business development and research, and has held senior research positions at Novartis and Systemix, and executive and business development positions at BioSeek and Asterand. He has negotiated and closed over one hundred deals including complex drug discovery collaborations, technology-based collaborations, and product and technology licensing deals. He is author on over thirty peer-reviewed publications, has filed numerous patents and has a strong track record of scientific accomplishments and broad scientific experience in systems biology, human primary cells, small molecule screening and optimization, drug repositioning, expression vectors, gene therapy, stem cells, retroviruses, immunology and oncology. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Zürich, Switzerland.