Gregory KATZ is the ESSEC-sanofi-aventis Chaired Professor of Therapeutic Innovation at ESSEC Business School (Paris-Singapore). He is associate Professor at the ESSEC Institute of Health Management. He is also CEO of the Fondation d'entreprise Générale de Santé promoting healthcare innovation, humanitarian and social initiatives. He holds a doctorate of philosophy, a doctorate of biopharmaceutical sciences and a MBA. His academic research activities focus on the socio-economic impact of stem cell research, biobanking, pharmacogenomics and genetic testing. In 2002, he published The Cipher of Life: Reconciling Genetics & Humanism (Editions du Seuil). Prefaced by Elie Wiesel, a revised edition is forthcoming (Yale University Press). Visiting professor at INSEAD (Singapore) and at Bocconi University SDA (Milan), he was deputy director of the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the French Israelite Consistory. He was the co-founder and the vice president of the Eurocord Association, an international platform specialized on cord blood stem cells research. He is a member of several editorial boards of academic journals including Philosophy of Management and the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing. He was the 2008 Laureate of the San Benedetto Prize awarded by the Fondazione Sublacense for his work on bioethics and humanism. Personal Link - Wikipedia (in French)