Els Vanheusden is a Belgian physician, businesswoman and from 2004 until 31 May 2008, general manager of FlandersBio, the cluster of the Flemish biotech industry.
Els Vanheusden graduated as a Medical Doctor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and in addition obtained two master's degrees in Hospital Management and Aeronautical and Space Medicine.
In December 2000, she co-founded PharmaDM, a spin-off company from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Aberystwyth University (Wales, United Kingdom) and the University of Oxford (England, United Kingdom) and became its first Chief Executive Officer.
In 2008 she took another step in her career and started working for Capricorn Venture Partners, a venture capital funds company, in which she helped founding the €42M Health-Tech fund.
In 2017 she became general manager of Multiversum, the largest psychiatric hospital cluster in Belgium.