Olivier Deloche completed a PhD in Biochemistry on protein folding at the University of Geneva in 1997. Subsequently, he worked in the group of Prof. Randy Schekman (Lasker Award) for 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Berkeley, California in the field of protein transport. In 2000, Olivier was appointed Maître-assistant and then Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche at the faculty of medicine of Geneva for studying the mechanisms of regulation of protein synthesis.

In 2007, Olivier joined the team of Unitec and completed an interdisciplinary Master in life science law at the faculty of law of Geneva (2008), so acquiring a real expertise on intellectual property, therapeutic and biotechnological laws and commercial law.

Olivier is member of the associations of Swiss and European technology transfer professionals (SwiTT and ASTP) and the Union of the Swiss Societies of Experimental Biology (USGEB).