As-Iris

Logo As-Iris supports leaders and organizations in crafting development strategies that create meaningful impact for both patients and the organization's stakeholders

We recognize the critical importance of combining scientific and technical excellence with collaborative dynamics to design a robust corporate strategy and to successfully and efficiently drive product developments, regulatory submissions, and business transformation initiatives.

Anne à Londres After over 25 years in the Life Sciences industry, I founded to offer leaders and their organizations my dual expertise as a subject matter expert and executive coach.

My expertise spans innovative biotech product development, regulatory strategy, portfolio management, program leadership, and executive coaching. I am passionate about fostering the professional growth of teams and empowering them, as I believe that true success is always rooted in people.

Throughout my professional journey, I have learned the value of partnership—bridging functions, disciplines, and perspectives to foster collaboration around a shared goal and broaden horizons. This commitment to connection is reflected in my partnerships with clients and my involvement in professional networks such as Humanim and Phraktion .

My Tailored Support Approach

Strategic Insight for Leadership Teams and Investors
- Providing external expertise and facilitation to inform and refine corporate strategies.
Development and Regulatory Strategies
- Leveraging extensive experience, particularly in advanced therapies and rare diseases, to accelerate the development and approval of innovative biotech products addressing urgent patient needs.
Coaching, Mentoring, and Team Facilitation
- Supporting and enabling leaders and teams to achieve success across industries, extending beyond the life sciences sector.

About As-Iris

Who am I ?

Anne Dupraz Poiseau, Ph.D , President

I hold a PhD in medical biology and I have worked for over 25 years in the life sciences industry.

As a scientist, executive, and entrepreneur, I am deeply committed to contributing to strong, diverse, and high-performing international teams and organizations that drive innovation and develop life-changing products. I have proven experience in leading start-ups and biotech companies through significant growth phases, including funding rounds up to and including IPO. I pioneered the regulatory landscape for advanced therapies.

I co-created a strategic and regulatory consulting company (Meditest International: 1999-2002). As executive leadership team member of two other companies (VCLS: 2009-2016 and Orchard Therapeutics: 2016-2022), I participated in their growth strategy (from a few employees to 200+) and international development before creating the company .

My technical expertise includes regulatory and health product development strategy, with a specialization in Advanced Therapies (gene therapy, cell therapy and tissue engineering) and rare diseases. In my various leadership positions, as Chief Development and Regulatory Officer at Orchard Therapeutics Limited or Executive Vice President at Voisin Consulting Life Sciences, I have been able to appreciate the importance of combining technical excellence and collaborative dynamics to carry out successful and efficient development projects, regulatory submissions and all business transformation projects.

I trained in executive coaching at the Paris Coaching School and have been certified in June 2023. I specialised in Transactional Analysis and Berne's Theory of Organizations. I am also a certified MBTI practioner.

With this experience and rich understanding of organizations and interpersonal relationships, I am keen to support each executive and leadership team to help them mobilize all their potential and optimize their performance by developing their personal, relational and /or organizational skills. Each of us being an actor of change, this contributes to meaningful, more efficient and more humane organizations.

A commitment to "Behave "

The Iris, symbol of beauty, comes from the Greek term meaning “rainbow”. Our entire business is about combining diverse expertise and talents to best serve the patients.

Each of us has our own palette of colors and skills. The challenge is to combine them,

either individually, to give meaning, power and beauty to our actions,
or collectively, to build bridges, to interact effectively and respectfully, and to create a complementary team driven by a shared vision and common goals, bringing out the best in each of the team members.

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Our services

Accompany :

Executive coaching
Team coaching

Strategy :

Corporate strategy
Development and regulatory strategies

Executive Coaching

What is Executive Coaching ?

Executive coaching provides a space-time for change and transformation, as well as for unlocking potential blockages.

It offers personalized support based on confidentiality. Through a close, strong, and trusting partnership with the coach, it helps individuals take a necessary step back, broaden their perspectives, develop new practices, and explore positive avenues of growth to achieve their desired objectives.

Who is Executive Coaching for ?

Leaders, from C-Suite to team leaders.

When to ask for Executive Coaching ?

At any time ! Executive coaching serves as a key development tool for nurturing growth, enhancing performance, and expediting success. It also provides reenergizing support for executives.

It can be particularly beneficial and impactful for leaders in specific situations:

Alleviating the sense of loneliness by providing an independent sounding board for senior leaders, enabling them to step back, gain perspective on the relentless daily pressures, and work on their leadership posture.
Preparing for future role or career change
Taking on a new or different role
Overcoming difficulties in achieving professional goals
Overcoming relational or communication problems at work
Overcoming a problem of finding one's place and being recognized by one's peers, hierarchy and/or team
Overcoming a work/life balance problem
Managing stress at work

Modalities

The coach, drawing on her experience as an executive leader and her executive coaching certification, acts as a catalyst

Contact

Executive coaching services are tailored to your unique needs as leaders. Best is first to discuss them together.

Team coaching

Why to use team coaching ?

Human factor is essential for business performance.

Team Coaching helps transform a team’s dynamic, develop its collective intelligence and foster collaboration

When to use team coaching ?

You are a leader, from C-suite to team leader and you need to :

mobilize your team(s) around a transformation project (strategic, organizational or cultural) and/or support them in these transformations.
strengthen the efficiency of your team(s)
strengthen your team's unity and cohesion
manage a team in a multi-cultural context
strengthen managerial practices

Modalities

A team of coaches will be assigned to team coaching, providing complementary perspectives on situations

Partnership with Humanim, a management consulting firm specializing in the healthcare industry.

Contact

Team coaching services are tailored to your unique needs as a specific team. Best is first to discuss them together.

Organizational coaching

What is organizational coaching ?

It is a systemic approach aimed at enhancing the overall functioning and productivity of an organization

When to use organizational coaching ?

define a shared vision, mission and values for your organization etc...
cultural or organizational change
department/team restructuring

Modalities

Contact

Team coaching services are tailored to your unique needs as a specific team. Best is first to discuss them together.

Mentoring

When to use mentoring ?

Corporate Strategy

Bringing External Expertise and Facilitation Insight to Executive Leadership Team and/or Investors on Corporate Strategies

With a blend of both technical and coaching skills, I will partner with you to:

Define a shared vision (vision, mission, and values) that resonates with stakeholders and enables leaders to align their teams, inspire collective action, and drive organizational success.
Ensure that managerial principles are aligned with your shared vision, preventing potential conflicting injunctions at different levels within the company.
Prioritize your portfolio to ensure alignment with strategic objectives, support better decision-making, and brings the focus on delivering maximum value projects.
Establish an Advisory Board to bring external, multidisciplinary expertise into key decisions.
Provide a fractional Development and/or Regulatory Chief role to support the early development of the company, internationalization, and/or the structuring and planning for relevant team growth

Development and regulatory Strategy for healthcare products

We help you define the optimal strategy for your healthcare products based on our experience and in-depth knowledge of global regulatory pathways.

We act as part of your extended team, providing experienced professional support to complement your team skills and assets.

A robust regulatory strategy is a key factor of success as it allows timely inputs and risk mitigations into the different aspects of the development, and help coordinating the different activities needed for an efficient and streamlined product development and a rapid approval.

With a science and risk based approach, we assist you with

Portfolio assessment and prioritization
Due dilligence
Guide product development through the different regulatory frameworks to allow a global approach; identify appropriate regulatory pathways and accelerated routes to approval when possible
Review development and regulatory plans before implementation, identify risks and opportunities and propose substantiated alternatives when needed
Align the regulatory strategy with the product development plan in line with your objectives
Define, prioritize and/or review interactions plans with regulators
Provide strategic review on your regulatory applications, including making sure the key messages are clear and distilled consistently and coherently throughout the applications
Prepare and lead interactions with regulators, help identifying questions to the agencies, developing robust briefing packages, rehearsing for oral presentation and planning for different scenarios depending on agencies' feedback
Guide you through the pre-BLA, pre-MAA preparatory activities
Act as a sounding board for your teams

Development and regulatory Strategy for healthcare products

You can benefit from the following experience et expertise

Before creating As-Iris, Anne was Chief Regulatory and Development Officer at Orchard Therapeutics Limited (“Orchard”). In this position, Anne led Orchard’s global regulatory strategy and coordinated program leadership and management. She explored innovative pathways to expedite the development and licensing of the company’s pipeline of transformative medicines. Notably, under her leadership, Libmeldy® was approved in the EU for the treatment of children with Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD).

Anne brings 30 years of experience of tackling R&D, clinical and regulatory challenges within life sciences companies. Prior Orchard, she was Executive Vice President at VCLS (Voisin Consulting Life Sciences), a global consulting firm, where she was also actively involved in the design, preparation and management of a high number of regulatory applications at all stages of product development (from product regulatory classification, clinical trial applications to registration file).

Over the years, Anne has developed very effective communication links with regulatory authorities, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). She participated in a large number of interactions with the agencies, including preparatory activities for Biological License Applications (BLAs) and Marketing Authorization Applications (MAAs), Scientific Advice procedures on product development plans as well as Pediatric Investigation Plans and regulatory designations (e.g. Orphan Drug Designations (ODD), Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) and Breakthrough Therapy Designations (FDA) or PRIority Medicines (PRIME) scheme (EU)).

Strategic thinker, Anne advises on product development in numerous therapeutic areas and notably for rare indications with high unmet medical needs, where accelerated pathways are of paramount importance to better serve the patients at need. Anne possesses extensive expertise in human Cell, Tissue and Gene Therapies, so called Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). Bringing together scientific and regulatory expertise in this area, she actively participated in the elaboration of the European ATMPs' Regulation through Industry Associations and worked closely with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on related guidelines.

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Publication Manager

Anne Dupraz

Hosting

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Address: 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France

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Together, let's move the needle

My Tailored Support Approach

About As-Iris

Our services

Executive Coaching

Team coaching

Organizational coaching

Mentoring

Corporate Strategy

Development and regulatory Strategy for healthcare products

Development and regulatory Strategy for healthcare products

Contact us

Legal Notices