Biography

Romu Corbau brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience to Freeline. He obtained his PhD in the Department of Tumor Virology at the German Centre for Cancer Research (Heidelberg, Germany), where he studied the regulation of parvoviruses life cycle. He started his pharmaceutical career at Pfizer Global Research & Development, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in several therapeutic areas. After this, he became Director of Biology at the Center for Innovation and Stimulation of Drug Discovery (CISTIM, Leuven, Belgium), a company that transforms ground-breaking science into innovative small molecule drug discovery projects. Before joining Freeline, Romu served as the Translational Lead at Spark Therapeutics (Philadelphia, USA), a company dedicated to the discovery and development of AAV-based gene therapies.

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Research Interest

Tumor Virology