Martine Clozel
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Clozel studied at the University of Nancy and the University of California in San Francisco. She also attended further training in physiology and pharmacology at McGill University.[2]
In 1997, she founded Actelion with her husband Jean-Paul Clozel.[3][4] The company was sold in 2017 to the American pharmaceutical and consumer products company Johnson & Johnson for US$30 billion.[5] Martine Clozel founded the pharmaceutical company Idorsia in 2017 and has since served as head of research. She is one of the most successful female company founders in Switzerland.[6]
Martine Clozel is the sister of Marion Créhange, a computer scientist who was the first woman to receive a computer science PhD and one of the first world-wide.
