Roche vet Jean-Jacques Ga­raud woos in­ter­na­tion­al be­liev­ers in his French star­tup's take on sep­tic shock

When Jean-Jacques Ga­raud left the top role in re­search and ear­ly de­vel­op­ment at Roche to build and ad­vise ear­ly-stage biotechs in his na­tive Paris, one fledg­ling quick­ly drew close to his heart.

The start­up, In­otrem, was de­vel­op­ing an im­munother­a­py to treat sep­tic shock. Hav­ing trained as a crit­i­cal care physi­cian be­fore mov­ing to Scher­ing-Plough and then No­var­tis, Ga­raud was all too fa­mil­iar with the dearth of treat­ments for sep­sis, which is dead­ly even in de­vel­oped coun­tries, claim­ing more than a quar­ter-mil­lion deaths in the US each year.

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