Bart has more than 20 years of research experience including 15 years related to drug discovery, and more than 7 years of experience with business development and company creation.

Before joining PMV, Bart was active as a Business Development Manager at VIB and as a Search and Evaluation Lead at Cistim focusing on the translation of early-stage research projects. Before that, Bart led a scientific team for more than 10 years as a Project Leader in Drug Discovery at reMYND, where he built a diabetes drug discovery platform, and as a postdoc and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University.

Bart holds a Master's and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from KU Leuven, where he also obtained a Postgraduate degree in Business Economics.