Joël
Drai
Founder & CEO
MEGA BIOPHARMA
Advancing
bone regeneration.
MEGA BIOPHARMA develops a nacre-derived biomaterials platform for regenerative medicine in France. Through biomineralisation, materials science, formulation and industrial know-how, our teams connect scientific discovery, development and manufacturing.
Leadership
Our leadership team.
Joël
Didier
Bensadoun
CFO
Pedro
Carvalho
Production & Industrialisation Director
Laurène
Guion
Quality Manager
Mickaël
Saada
COO
Estelle
Colin
Associate Director, R&D
Team
Research &
support functions.
Research and development, regulatory affairs and human resources: expertise supporting our programmes.
Martin Lachaux
R&D Engineer · Regulatory Affairs Officer
Mélanie Ferreira
HR Officer
Scientific advisers
Expertise that
connects.
Biomaterials, bone tissue and surgical practice: the committee brings together researchers, clinicians and healthcare entrepreneurs around our work.
Marthe Rousseau
A CNRS researcher working on biomaterials and interactions between nacre and bone tissue. She heads MEGA BIOPHARMA’s scientific committee.
Laurent Helewa
Trained as a dental surgeon, a medical-device entrepreneur and founder of Cleanis. He brings scientific and entrepreneurial perspectives to project development.
Marc Slama
A plastic surgeon with experience in reconstructive and maxillofacial surgery. He has held departmental leadership responsibilities at Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris.
Philippe Cottin
A surgeon with expertise in reconstructive surgery and a hospital background at Antoine-Béclère.
Daniel Chappard
A professor and researcher in bone remodelling and biomaterials. He led the GEROM laboratory at the University of Angers, dedicated to bone tissue research.
Thierry Madar
A dental surgeon practising periodontology, implantology and oral surgery. A former lecturer at Université Paris Cité.
Jacques Théron
A neuroradiologist and interventional radiologist, formerly a professor at Caen University Hospital. His work includes percutaneous approaches to the spine.
Our roots
In France.
At the heart of innovation.
A French company, with research and manufacturing activities in France and a network to support our projects.
BioLabs Hôtel-Dieu
Based in the heart of the Paris life sciences ecosystem.
Bpifrance
Supporting the development of our company and our innovations.
Medicen Paris Region
A project endorsed by Medicen for an application to the i-Nov competition.
Made in FranceResearch & manufacturing
French TechPart of the ecosystem
BioLabs Hôtel-Dieu · Paris
An environment
built for innovation.
Our presence at BioLabs Hôtel-Dieu places us within a life sciences community in central Paris. This environment complements our research and manufacturing activities in Crosne.
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Photographs published by BioLabs. Incubator spaces, separate from MEGA BIOPHARMA’s own facilities. Image source ↗
MEGA Dental · Distribution
From research
to practitioners.
MEGA BIOPHARMA and MEGA Dental share the same founder, Joël Drai, and roots in the dental sector.
MEGA BIOPHARMA develops biomaterials. MEGA Dental, a distributor of dental products and equipment, contributes its understanding of dental practices and its distribution network in France.
This network will support the future distribution of Bionacre® Bone Graft, subject to the necessary authorisations.
Discover MEGA Dental ↗MEGA BIOPHARMA
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at our teams.
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