Bernard Coupez is our new administrative and financial project Manager ! After completing a PhD in Computational Chemistry and three years of postdoc in computer aided drug design, he decided to reorient his career in research support professions. He worked at the French research funding agency as scientific project officer for 5 years. His responsibilities were truly diverse: organization, scientific monitoring, … Then he worked at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) as project manager and ensured the administrative and financial follow-up of the RHU project “Fighting Heart Failure” for 6 years (budget : 9M€, a dozen of partners).
He now looks forward on working on European projects and since July 2022 is in charge of the administrative and financial follow-up within ERN-EYE and the French filière SENSGENE and especially assist the ERN-EYE Members to pass their next evaluation.