GRARD SOULA is the Founder of Flamel Technologies SA and has been
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research and
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.
