Drug Discovery Partnership Director
Eurofins Discovery, France
Celine Legros is a Drug Discovery Partnership Director at Eurofins Discovery. With extended knowledge of Eurofins Discovery’s expertise and services. She is the primary scientific contact for clients, deeply involved in the design of complex projects, such as HTS, Hit-to-Lead and Lead-Op programmes. Prior to joining Eurofins, Celine was Scientific Project Leader in the Screening Department at Institut de Recherches Servier, France, where she was responsible for designing and running screening cascades from Target to Hit/HTS through to Lead Optimisation. In close collaboration with chemistry and biophysics teams, Celine led screening projects in neuroscience, cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, immune-inflammation and oncology. In addition, she developed and ran assays on GPCRs, transcription factors, PPi, kinases, Ser-hydrolases and Tyr-kinase receptors, combining scientific relevance with robotics, data quality and throughput. Employing her expertise in HTS and previous experience in platform design, in close collaboration with robotics engineers, she designs automated platforms and implements new HTS technology. Celine holds a PhD in Animal Physiology (melatonin circanual rhythm and melatonin receptors) from the University of Tours, France, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship within the Blood Brain Barrier Group at King’s College London, UK.