Jean-Francois Rolland

Jean-Francois Rolland is Senior Vice President, Early Drug Discovery at Axxam. He joined the company in November 2011, establishing the electrophysiology laboratory. He was appointed Head of the Electrophysiology Group in 2015 and became Director of the Biological Sciences Department in 2023.

Prior to Axxam Jean-Francois has worked four years in Xention (Cambridge, UK) as Principal Scientist ensuring the biophysical and pharmacological validation of new cell lines and the compound profiling on different electrophysiological platforms.

Jean-Francois has obtained his postgraduate diploma in Electrophysiology at the University of Poitiers (France) and progressed his studies with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Louvain (Brussels, Belgium) and five years of post-doctoral studies at the University of Bari (Italy).

As a result of more than 25 years of experience in the ion channel field, he is co-author of more than 38 publications and co-inventor of one patent. He has been invited several times to present his work at international meetings, including the satellite meeting “Drug Discovery for Ion Channels” organized alongside the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, as well as the Japanese Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting.