Nathalie Rioux

Dr. Rioux joined Certara in October 2018 and is now a Vice President of Integrated Drug Development. Nathalie obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacy at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, where she studied lung cancer chemoprevention by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and lipoxygenase inhibitors.  Following graduate school, Nathalie completed an industrial post-doctoral fellowship in drug metabolism, sponsored by NSERC Canada/Biochem Pharma.

Nathalie has more than 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in biotech, pharma, and CRO service.  After being a DMPK lab head & project leader for multiple antiviral drug development projects at Boehringher Ingelheim Canada, she moved to a principal scientist role at Epizyme, where she represented DMPK on multidisciplinary oncology discovery and nonclinical programs including alliances with GSK, Eisai, and Celgene.  Most recently, she built the DMPK, bioanalytical and clinical pharmacology group at H3 Biomedicine in Cambridge, MA, where she drove the strategic and tactical activities around ADME, PK/TK, bioanalysis, and modeling across the discovery and development space.  At H3, she acted as a member of the development leadership team, where she contributed to regular review of project strategy, selection of development candidate, and multiple due-diligence activities.  Nathalie has co-authored multiple regulatory documents and contributed to several development compounds in H3’s Phase 1/1b oncology program.