Paul Appermont

Paul Appermont (born 1946 in Bilzen) is a Belgian businessman. Together with Joos Horsten, he laid the foundation of Xi'an Janssen Pharmaceutical.[1] Appermont is a member of the board of EuropaBio.

Education

Appermont graduated with a Ph.D in Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)[2] and in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) (Geneva, Switzerland).

Career

Paul Appermont started his career at Janssen Pharmaceutica as company lawyer. In 1979 he and Joos Horsten were sent to Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, in the People's Republic of China by Dr. Paul Janssen to prepare for the establishment of a pharmaceutical company. In 1986 he started working for Biogen in Switzerland as a Vice President of trade and licensing. In 1896 he joined Jean-Louis Gentilini in the development of Medicard. He now works as a consultant for Innogenetics and the biotech industry.[3]

Notes
  1. The Medical Center: August 2007
  2. Category:leuven Alumni - mashPipe
  3. First Flanders biotech seminar in Japan huge success Archived 19 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
gollark: All your reactors should be efficiency reactors.
gollark: more reactors, using output from the last one.
gollark: Then add MORE FUEL CYCLES!
gollark: Also a wind turbine for backup.
gollark: My long-term plans: The `Deus Volt` power station, consisting of enough max-size reactors to cycle through most of the renewable fuels, giant power buffers for them, power routing controls, (obviously) fuel production, and also Botania mana production.

References
  • Trends, Ik ben Paul Janssen nog altijd dankbaar, 24 April 2008, pp. 132–135
  • Europabio (board)
  • Geerdt Magiels, Paul Janssen. Pionier in farma en in China, Houtekiet, 2005.


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