Clozel studied at the
University of Nancy and the
University of California in
San Francisco. She also attended further training in
physiology and
pharmacology at
McGill University. In 1997, she founded
Actelion with her husband
Jean-Paul Clozel. The company was sold in 2017 to the American pharmaceutical and consumer products company
Johnson & Johnson for US$30 billion. Martine Clozel founded the pharmaceutical company Idorsia in 2017 and has since served as head of research. She is one of the most successful female company founders in
Switzerland. Martine Clozel is the sister of
Marion Créhange, a computer scientist who was the first woman to receive a computer science PhD and one of the first world-wide. == Awards ==