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Cuong Vuong

Chief Scientific Officer at SANTERO

Beerse, Flemish Region, Belgium

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About

Cuong Vuong is Chief Scientific Officer at Santero Therapeutics. He has more than 16 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries and over 20 years in the life sciences and infectious diseases sector, spanning basic research, drug discovery, and early clinical development. His work covers small molecules, natural products, peptides, phages, and engineered lysins.

Chief Scientific Officer at SANTERO

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SANTERO's investors · 2

Newton BiocapitalBrussels · since 2023SambrinvestCharleroi · since 2023

Co-founders at SANTERO

AGAbel Garcia-Pino
Abel Garcia-PinoCo-founder & Scientific Advisor
CGCédric Govaerts
Cédric GovaertsCo-founder & Scientific Advisor

Experience

  1. Santero TherapeuticsCSOcurrent2026 — presentMont-Saint-Guibert, Walloon Region, Belgium
  2. Santero TherapeuticsHead of Microbiology2025Mont-Saint-Gilbert, België
  3. FreelanceIndependent Consultantcurrent2024 — present
  4. SelmodInterim CSO2024 — 2025Schwyz, Switzerland
  5. The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & JohnsonDirector, Bacterial Infectious Disease Discovery2022 — 2024Beersel, Flemish Region, Belgium
  6. AiCuris Anti-infective Cures GmbHDirector, Research Bacteriology2018 — 2022Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  7. AiCuris Anti-infective Cures GmbHPrincipal Scientist2015 — 2018Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  8. AiCuris GmbH & Co. KGPrincipal Scientist2014 — 2015Wuppertal
  9. AiCuris GmbH & Co. KGResearch Project Leader2009 — 2014Wuppertal, Germany
  10. UMass Medical SchoolAssistant Professor2005 — 2009Worcester, MA, USA
  11. NIAID, NIHPostdoc2001 — 2005Hamilton, Montana, USA
  12. University of TuebingenPhD. Student1998 — 2000Tuebingen, Germany

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Supportive ServicesAnalytical SkillsProject ManagementInterpersonal SkillsCommunicationInterpersonelle FähigkeitenRechercheAufbau von BeziehungenRecruitingProgramm-ManagementGeschäftssinnAufkommende Trends
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Languages Deutsch · Englisch · Vietnamesisch

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Who is Cuong Vuong?
Cuong Vuong is Chief Scientific Officer at Santero Therapeutics. He has more than 16 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries and over 20 years in the life sciences and infectious diseases sector, spanning basic research, drug discovery, and early clinical development. His work covers small molecules, natural products, peptides, phages, and engineered lysins.
Where does Cuong Vuong work?
Cuong Vuong is Chief Scientific Officer at SANTERO.
Where did Cuong Vuong go to school?
Cuong Vuong studied at University of Tübingen (2000, Ph.D. in Microbiology).

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