René Aerts

Dr. René Aerts is the Founder of RA-Consultancy BV and currently serves as Partner at NovioCap BV. He retired from Merck/MSD Animal Health in 2013 where he had been a member of the Executive Committee since 2008 as Global Head Vaccine Research. He previous held senior positions in Manufacturing Operations, Regulatory Affairs and R&D at Intervet International. He holds non-executive and Advisory Board positions at AGC Biologics (USA), The Jenner Institute (UK), ImmunoValley (NL), Schothorst Feed Research BV (NL) and Alternative Gene Expression Ltd (ES). Mr. Aerts received a PhD in Bioanalytics and Pharmacochemistry from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1990.