Romuald Corbau PhD

Romuald Corbau, Ph.D. has served as our Chief Scientific Officer since September 2020. From July 2017 to September 2020, he was our Senior Vice President, Research. He brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience to Freeline. He started his pharmaceutical career in June 1998 at Pfizer Global Research & Development (Sandwich, U.K.), where he held positions of increasing responsibility in several therapeutic areas.

After this, in June 2011 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, Dr. Corbau served as the Translational Lead at Spark Therapeutics (Philadelphia, USA), a company dedicated to the discovery and development of AAV-based gene therapies, from June 2014 to June 2017. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Tumor Virology at the German Centre for Cancer Research in 1998 (Heidelberg, Germany).