Florence Dal Degan is Senior Director, External Innovation, at Ipsen. In her role, she is responsible for the identification and evaluation of innovative external opportunities from discovery to late clinical stage within rare diseases and neuroscience. Florence has 10 years’ international experience in external innovation and business development and 20 years’ experience in R&D, where she has held various scientific and leadership positions at Novo Nordisk, Zealand Pharma and Pharmexa. Florence holds a Ph.D. in protein biology.