Thomas Van De Velde

Senior Principal Scientist - Group head Target to Lead Intelligence

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

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Experience

  • Sanofi (Full-time · 7 yrs)
    • Senior Principal Scientist - Group head Target to Lead Intelligence
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

      The Digital Biologics team is a scientific computing team aiming at developing state-of-the-art computational solutions for biologics design, characterization, engineering and development in Sanofi's global Large Molecule Research department. The Target to Lead Intelligence group focuses on target annotation, hit identification strategies from repertoire sequencing, computational hit optimization/sampling strategies and pipeline building to support these strategies.

    • Senior Principal Scientist - Group head NanoCompute Unit
      Dec 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Group head of the NanoCompute Unit (NCU) in Large Molecule Research Ghent. The NanoCompute Unit is a NANOBODY® scientific computing team aiming at developing state-of-the-art computational solutions for NANOBODY® design, characterization, engineering and development in Sanofi's NANOBODY® Research Platform.

    • Senior Scientist
      Apr 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Ablynx (Full-time · 4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Research Associate
      Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr

    • Research Associate
      Jan 2015 - Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Discovery - Phage and Yeast display of Nanobody libraries in therapeutic programs, development of Yeast display platform, process improvement, automation

  • Process Validation Engineer at Johnson & Johnson (ext.) at Altran
    Nov 2013 - Jan 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Cleaning and process validation for pharmaceutical development (solids, liquids parenterals) and commercial production departments - quality systems - events and deviations- documentation - planning - communication - working in GMP environment