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  • Kate Betteridge

    How to inspire a new generation of regulatory professionals

    2025-04-15T14:10:00+01:00By Hannah Galbraith and Claire McDermott

    Kate Betteridge, Global Regulatory Portfolio Lead at Pfizer, and winner of the ‘Inspiration’ award at the 2024 TOPRA Awards for Regulatory Excellence, discusses strategies for harnessing innovation and creativity and her role in developing the regulatory professionals of the future.

  • Michelle Blake

    How to develop your skills and stand out from the crowd

    2025-04-15T14:10:00+01:00By Hannah Galbraith and Claire McDermott

    Michelle Blake, Associate Director and Senior Regulatory Consultant at DLRC Ltd, and winner of the ‘Contribution’ award at the 2024 TOPRA Awards for Regulatory Excellence, discusses her career path in regulatory affairs and gives advice on how to develop your skills and go that extra mile.

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    Bengt Mattson reflects on sustainability

    2024-08-13T10:05:00+01:00By Davina Stevenson

    Bengt Mattson is Policy Manager at LiF, the trade association for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden. He is also the Co-chair of the three European pharmaceutical trade associations’ (AESGP, EFPIA and MfE) Task Force on pharmaceutical and environmental impacts. In this interview with Alan Booth, he reflects on sustainability in the regulatory environment.

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    Dr Peter Marks on reflecting innovation through FDA regulation

    2024-05-08T08:30:00+01:00By Harriet Edwards and Katherine Bowen

    Harriet Edwards and Dr Katherine Bowen spoke to Dr Peter Marks, Director of Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about his career and the continued evolvement of regulation to support innovative medicines development

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    A harmonised approach to clinical data standards

    2023-11-02T00:05:00+00:00By Leah Kleylein and in conversation with Dave Evans

    David Evans, President and CEO of Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), speaks to the journal’s November Issue Editor Leah Kleylein to discuss his role at the helm of the standards development organisation and the ways it is advancing global data standards in the clinical research realm.  

  • Yaneth Giha, Executive President, FIFARMA

    Patients are at the centre of everything

    2023-04-06T07:57:00+01:00By Cristina Mota

    Yaneth Giha, Executive President, FIFARMA, finds and implements solutions to enhance patient outcomes.

  • Dr Francesco Pignatti, Head of Oncology and Haematology at the EMA

    Every patient has a story to tell us

    2023-01-04T10:39:00+00:00By Kasia Nowok

    Dr Francesco Pignatti, Head of Oncology and Haematology at the EMA, discusses his career, his inspirations, and why it is important to involve patients in regulatory decisions.

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    Digital and data-driven: information management at the EMA

    2022-06-22T09:58:00+01:00By Kasia Nowok

    Dr Hilmar Hamann, Head of Information Management Division at the EMA, discusses key milestones in his career, the challenges faced and his long-term visions for information management legislation

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    Updates to quality legislation from the EMA

    2022-05-26T14:47:00+01:00By Victoria Goff

    Brian Dooley, Quality Specialist in the Pharmaceutical Quality Office of the EMA, discusses his role, new marketing applications and updates to quality legislation.

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    Evolutions in patient healthcare at MHRA

    2022-05-26T14:09:00+01:00By Kasia Nowok

    Chief Safety Officer, Alison Cave discusses her role at the MHRA, key objectives and ambitions for the regulator.

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    A review of paediatric development challenges, FDA collaboration and future trends

    2022-03-24T11:51:00+00:00By Catriona Roscoe-Cutting and Charity-Anne M. Schuller

    Susan McCune M.D., is a paediatrician and neonatologist, with 18 years’ academic clinical and research experience. This was followed by 18 years at the US FDA where, from 2017 to 2021, she was the director of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics in the Office of the Commissioner. She was responsible ...

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    The national competent authorities of Belgium and Luxembourg share their views about the e-PIL Pilot

    2022-03-24T11:24:00+00:00By Nathalie Lambot and Marie Vande Ginste

    A: Iris Geussens: Digitalisation is the future, and the pharmaceutical sector cannot stay behind. The advantage of an electronic package leaflet is that you always have access to the most up-to-date information. Most changes to a patient information leaflet have to do with the safety of the product. When ...

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    Regulating medicines in a surge of change

    2022-02-23T15:41:00+00:00By Victoria Goff

    RegRap speaks to Steve Hoare, Quality Regulatory Science and Safety Policy Director at the ABPI

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    A strong advocate for global harmonisation in animal health

    2022-02-21T08:52:00+00:00By Pascale Canning

    Gavin Hall, Interim Director of Authorisations at the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, discusses the agency’s drive to harmonise scientific guidelines and its readiness to be flexible with regulatory frameworks following Brexit.

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    Building best regulatory practices in Brazil

    2022-01-24T10:02:00+00:00By Victoria Goff

    Gustavo Mendes Lima Santos, General Manager of Medicines and Biological Products at ANVISA, explains how the agency has aligned with best practices of others across the world, and discusses important updates to legislation in Brazil.

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    Facilitating the use of information to improve global health

    2021-12-20T09:21:00+00:00By Leah Kleylein

     

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