Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> February 4, 2002
GERARD SOULA is the Founder of Flamel Technologies, SA, and has been
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research &
Development of the company since 1990. After receiving his Doctorate of
Sciences in organic chemistry from Marseilles University in 1973, he
joined Rhone-Poulenc's Research Center in Lyon, France. In 1972, Dr.
Soula received a degree from the Institut d'Administration des
Entreprises. In 1984, he received the Rhone-Poulenc Innovation Award for
his discovery of TDA, a phase transfer catalyst. From 1981 to 1990, he
was Head of Research of the Silicon Group and then Director of Research
of the Polymer Materials department of Rhone-Poulenc. Profile
Mr. Soula: Flamel is a French company that I formed 11 years ago. We
went public on NASDAQ in 1996 and trade under the symbol
