Written by Finding the right experts is central to TMA’s mission. In this customer conversation, CEO Eric-Jean Desbois explains how ScienceLeadR helps his team identify expertise across disciplines and build more balanced expert panels.
The right people around the table
Translational Medicine Academy (TMA) is an independent, non-profit foundation whose mission is to bridge the gap between knowledge and care faster. Bringing the right experts together is central to that work.
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If we bring the right people around the table, then the science reaches the patients faster.
Eric-Jean Desbois
CEO, Translational Medicine Academy
As Desbois explains, TMA’s programmes often span several medical specialties. They require perspectives from cardiology, nephrology, hepatology and endocrinology, including experts whose work connects these fields.
Perspectives across specialties
Cardiology
Nephrology
Hepatology
Endocrinology
Experts who connect these fields
How TMA uses ScienceLeadR
Desbois highlights three ways ScienceLeadR supports his team’s expert identification and selection.
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A 360° view of scientific activity
Publications, clinical trials, congress activity and collaborations help TMA assess each expert’s relevance to a programme and make decisions based on their work.
PublicationsClinical trialsCongress activityCollaborations
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Discovering emerging voices
Alongside established key opinion leaders, TMA can identify rising stars and experts working at the intersection of disciplines, extending its search beyond familiar names.
Established KOLsRising starsIntersection of disciplines
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Building balanced expert panels
A broader view of expertise helps TMA consider geographic balance and diversity of profiles and perspectives when bringing a panel together.
Geographic balanceDiversity of profilesDiversity of perspectives
In practice: TMA’s cardiomyopathy programme
For its cardiomyopathy programme, TMA needed experts whose work bridged cardiology and metabolic disease. Its existing network provided familiar names. ScienceLeadR helped the team identify additional experts active at that intersection, including rising stars and people from underrepresented regions.
Building the cardiomyopathy panel
Existing network
Familiar names
With ScienceLeadR
Broader expertise. More perspectives.
Cross-disciplinary expertise
Bridging cardiology and metabolic disease
Rising stars
Emerging voices alongside established experts
Geographic diversity
Experts from underrepresented regions
Conceptual illustration based on the interview; no measured network or expert counts are shown.
Desbois describes the result as “a more balanced, more relevant panel built in a fraction of the time.” His experience illustrates the value of considering both scientific activity and a wider range of perspectives when selecting experts.
Hear TMA’s experience
Watch Eric-Jean Desbois discuss TMA’s mission, its use of ScienceLeadR and the value of finding the right voices from the start.
Learn more about ScienceLeadR’s approach to expert discovery and scientific collaboration.
