
Jean-François Rolland is the Director of the Biological Sciences Department at Axxam. He is an electrophysiologist by background and has been “playing” with ion channels for more than 20 years, first in academia and since 2007 in the biotech world. After his PhD in Brussels and a post-doc in Italy he worked for four years at Xention, a Cambridge (UK)-based ion channel company. At the end of 2011, he joined Axxam, where he established the laboratory of Automated Patch-clamp and spent more than 10 years exploring new targets and establishing and validating new assays.
Since the beginning of 2023, he is Director of the Biological Sciences Department, heading several groups of highly skilled scientists, who generate in-vitro assays using state-of-the-art innovative biology capabilities by means of multidisciplinary and integrated approaches. In particular, Axxam are pioneers in using in-vitro optogenetics and offers unique reliable assays for automated organellar electrophysiology.