Chris Buyse

Managing Director FEFP

📍 Antwerp Metropolitan Area, Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2023
VC🌍 Belgium
9
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2
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24y
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Board Observer & Member Audit Committee
Dec 2020
We are a specialty biopharma company focused on innovating, reinventing, and optimising existing medications to address important healthcare needs and deliver relevant improvements for patients, healthcare professionals and payors. We have built a broad proprietary pipeline of complex value-added reformulated and repurposed products that have the potential to offer significant advantages over currently available medications. Today, we have two, partnered commercial-stage products, Sotalol IV for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, and Maxigesic® IV, a novel, dual mode-of-action non-opioid analgesic for the treatment of post-operative pain. Our development strategy of reformulating and repurposing approved pharmaceuticals primarily utilises the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway in the U.S. and similar pathways in other countries, which are specifically designed for pharmaceutical agents for which the safety and efficacy have already been established. This focused strategy can dramatically reduce the clinical burden required to bring a product to market, and significantly shortens the development timelines while also reducing costs and risks. Hyloris is based in Liège, Belgium. For more information, visit www.hyloris.com.
Board Member
2011
Bioxodes is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of a new generation of therapeutics for patients with thrombo-inflammatory diseases. We leverage our deep understanding of the thrombotic and inflammatory processes to design novel product candidates with an aim to address unmet medical needs.
early stageBiotechnology
Independant Boardmember
2010
BioSenic is an innovative company with the objective of addressing important unmet medical needs in the areas of immunity, auto-immune diseases and organ repair.
Independant Boardmember
2008
Celyad Oncology is a cutting-edge biotechnology company dedicated to pioneering the discovery and advancement of revolutionary technologies for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells. Its primary objective is to unlock the potential of its proprietary technology platforms and intellectual property, enabling to be at the forefront of developing next-generation CAR T-cell therapies. By fully leveraging its innovative technology platforms, Celyad Oncology aims to maximize the transformative impact of its candidate CAR T-cell therapies and redefine the future of CAR T-cell treatments. Celyad Oncology is based in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium. For more information, please visit www.celyad.com.
CFO & Board Member
Aug 2006
Oxurion (Euronext Brussels: OXUR) is a biopharmaceutical company developing next generation standard of care ophthalmic therapies, which are designed to improve and better preserve vision in patients with retinal disorders including diabetic macular edema (DME), the leading cause of vision loss in working-age people, as well as other conditions. Oxurion intends to play an important role in the treatment of retinal disorders, including the successful development of THR-149, its novel therapeutic for the treatment of DME. THR-149 is a potent plasma kallikrein inhibitor being developed as a potential new standard of care for the up to 50% of DME patients showing suboptimal response to anti-VEGF therapy. Oxurion is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with corporate operations in Boston, MA. More information is available at www.oxurion.com.
CFO and CEO ad Interim, currently Board Member
2002
Keyware Technologies is an independent international FinTech company bringing state-of-the-art solutions and services for the processing and management of electronic payments. Our SaaS solutions include : • Set2U: payment transaction platform for banks and financial institutions • S-Token: tokenisation software for electronic transactions, GDPR-affected data, etc • Split: let your customers pay in multiple installments without credit agreements • EasyOrder: the ordering & payment app and marketplace Our services include : • Processing and management of electronic payments • Rental and sale of payment terminals
CFO and CEO ad Interim, currently Board Member
2002
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2023
Board Member
Aug 2023
IPA is a progressive, scientific Contract Research Organization (CRO) recently ranked by one of the pharmaceutical industry’s most trusted, independent market research sources with the highest competitive score, for its antibody service portfolio.1 The company represents a HUB of biotherapeutic intelligence that includes a hybrid of experts and technologies, in the science and business of bioplatform-based discovery. We provide highly specialized full-continuum therapeutic antibody discovery, development, and out-licensing services [Talem] —with advanced omics and complex intelligence technology [LENSai] that provide greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before. Our mission is to provide our pharmaceutical customers with a HUB of the most advanced intelligence and technology to treat disease, bar none. Our goal — is to improve the specificity of biotherapeutics by unlocking the language of the genome. 1. ROOTS 2022: Antibody Discovery Services and Platforms Market (Industry Trends and Global Forecast, 4th Edition), 2021-2035​; p.118
2020
Board Observer & Member Audit Committee
Dec 2020
We are a specialty biopharma company focused on innovating, reinventing, and optimising existing medications to address important healthcare needs and deliver relevant improvements for patients, healthcare professionals and payors. We have built a broad proprietary pipeline of complex value-added reformulated and repurposed products that have the potential to offer significant advantages over currently available medications. Today, we have two, partnered commercial-stage products, Sotalol IV for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, and Maxigesic® IV, a novel, dual mode-of-action non-opioid analgesic for the treatment of post-operative pain. Our development strategy of reformulating and repurposing approved pharmaceuticals primarily utilises the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway in the U.S. and similar pathways in other countries, which are specifically designed for pharmaceutical agents for which the safety and efficacy have already been established. This focused strategy can dramatically reduce the clinical burden required to bring a product to market, and significantly shortens the development timelines while also reducing costs and risks. Hyloris is based in Liège, Belgium. For more information, visit www.hyloris.com.
2018
Francqui Foundation
Board Member
May 2018
2014
Managing Partner
Jul 2014
Fund+ is an open-ended Fund for long term equity investment in innovative Life Sciences companies with a focus on Belgium. We want to create sustainable shareholders value, contribute to the development of a leadership position in the Life Sciences sector and generate a tangible, beneficial societal impact.
2011
Board Member
2011
Bioxodes is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of a new generation of therapeutics for patients with thrombo-inflammatory diseases. We leverage our deep understanding of the thrombotic and inflammatory processes to design novel product candidates with an aim to address unmet medical needs.
early stageBiotechnology
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