Françoise Soussaline (née Yerouchalmi) is a French biophysicist and businesswoman, a specialist in cell imaging.She studied physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and completed a PhD in molecular spectroscopy in 1973.
She began her career as a researcher at Inserm, where she was involved in the development of the first digital scanner in nuclear medicine.
She then joined the Frédéric-Joliot hospital department of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission where she developed Positron emission tomography locally as part of a second thesis in biophysics completed in 1984 at the University of Paris-Sud under the direction of Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak.
[1] In 1985, she founded the company IMSTAR, which designs, develops and markets automated imaging systems for life-sciences research and diagnostic tests for genetic disorders and cancers.
[1][2] From 1994 to 2008, she served as the president of BioCRITT Ile de France Between 2007 and 2009, she was vice-president of the fr:Pôles de compétitivité en Île-de-France fr:Medicen (Medicen [business] competition clusters in the Île-de-France region).