Pharmaceutical

James Agnew

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James Agnew is a supervising associate at Simmons & Simmons. He has worked on a range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including commercial licensing, collaboration agreements, software protection, settlement...

Robert Alvarez

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After completing his degree in molecular biology at the University of Reading, Robert Alvarez has been at Lonza Biologics for 17 years, of which 14 were spent working in the product stability group and 2 as Head of Business Planning and...

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson is an English solicitor (attorney) and former barrister, who established his law firm, Anderson & Company, in 1994. His clients are mostly technology-based companies and universities in the UK and Northern Europe. He specialises in...

Laura Anderson

Laura Anderson is a Partner at Bristows in London. Since joining Bristows 16 years ago, Laura has specialised in commercial IP matters. She has considerable experience of commercial arrangements relating to the development and exploitation of all...

Justin Bailey

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Justin is a Senior Consultant at ONIX and has worked within the industry for over 11 years. He has a background in Submission Management, working for pharmaceutical companies and a Regulatory Operations software vendor. Justin provides ONIX...

Leela Barham

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BSc (Economics), MSc (Health Economics) Leela Barham is an independent health economist and policy expert working on a freelance basis. This follows 7 years at a specialist economic consulting firm working in a small dedicated health and...

Glyn Belcher

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Dr Glyn Belcher has over 25 years experience in clinical development and drug safety in the pharmaceutical industry. He qualified in medicine from Oxford and Cambridge and received his PhD in neuropharmacology from the latter university. After a...

Maikel Bouman

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Maikel Bouman works as a Senior Regulatory Operations Manager at Qdossier and in his role he has a strong focus on managing Regulatory Operations, coordination, and development of staff; planning and coordination of projects, including regulatory...

Richard Brady

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Richard Brady is a lawyer who has spent many years working in Europe and the Middle East in the legal, financial and insurance arenas. He has a degree from Cambridge College of Teachers (2005) on Teaching English and founded the British Legal...

Laura Brown

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Dr Laura Brown MBA, BSc (Biochemistry), BSc (Psychology), PhD, Diploma in Clinical Science, FICR, is a Pharmaceutical Management and Training Consultant, Course Director for the MSc in Clinical Research at the University of Cardiff. She has more...

Tom Carver

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Tom Carver is a partner at White & Black Legal. He has broad experience in patent litigation (infringement and validity) in pharmaceuticals, medical and mechanical devices and electronics, including advice concerning threats provisions. Tom...

Alan Chalmers

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Dr Alan Chalmers is a pharmacist with over 35 industrial experiences mainly in the field of pharmaceutical regulatory affairs. A graduate of Strathclyde University in Glasgow with a B.Sc. in Pharmacy with specialisation in Pharmaceutical...

Joelle Chia

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Joelle Chia, Director for Asia with Pharma To Market.

Jasbir Chohan

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Jasbir Chohan is the Founder and CEO of ONIX and has over 19 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Jasbir started the company in 2010 and has established a worldwide customer base. In 2013, Jasbir was selected for the Business Management...

Rachel Corder

Rachel Corder is an experienced lawyer, qualified in England & Australia with over 20 years’ experience. In the last 15 years she has been working in Healthcare managing the legal and compliance team. Her past roles include General Counsel for...

Bruce Davis

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Bruce Davis runs his own training/consultancy company for science and risk based approaches to Engineering and Process Validation (PV), Quality by Design (QbD), Technology Transfer (TT), Quality Risk Management and other related topics. He has...

Param Dayal

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Drug Safety Manager at Pharma To Market Mr. Param Dayal is a qualified Microbiologist with Master’s degree in Microbiology and a certified MedDRA coder. For the last 15 years, Param has worked on a variety of pharmacovigilance projects with...

Alex Denoon

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Alex Denoon is head of the regulatory team at Bristows, primarily advising life sciences clients. He has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in the sector. In addition to his LLB, Alex has a BSc in Human Genetics. Alex spent more...

Monica Dressler-Meyer

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Mónica Dressler-Meyer is DRA Manager based in Switzerland with many years of regulatory experience. She has spent many years in DRA working with different pharmaceutical companies with responsibility for Asia Pacific and lately also for...

Patrick Duxbury

Patrick is a Partner at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP and Head of their Life Sciences Team. He specialises in all aspects of transactional intellectual property law in the life sciences sector. Recent transactions include several M&A transactions and...

Mustafa Edik

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Mustafa Edik is an Independent GMP Consultant and Auditor.   After graduating as a Chemist from university, Mustafa began his 25 year plus career as a Laboratory Supervisor at Bayer, a German Pharmaceutical Company. After 15 years of working as...

Niels Ersbøll

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Niels Ersbøll, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP, advises clients on EU competition law in relation to cartels and restrictive practices, merger control, abuse of dominance and State aid. He is currently involved in several pending EU cartel...

Marc Feary

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Marc Feary is Principal Scientist at Lonza. He has greater than 15 years’ experience in biopharmaceutical development and bioproduction, having held R&D and commercially-focused roles at Lonza Biologics facilities in Slough and Cambridge (UK). ...

Joanne Flitcroft

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Joanne is a qualified solicitor with over 22 years’ experience. She trained in the City of London and later specialised in pharmacovigilance as part of a FTSE 100 pharmaceutical company’s global legal team. Joanne founded Opallios in 2016, a...

Shelley Gandhi

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Shelley is currently using her regulatory experience to work with the pharmaceutical industry to ensure they implement the new pharmacovigilance legislation. Shelley is part of the NDA Group AB and previously was with the MHRA (UK Regulatory...

Barbara Grossman

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Barbara is a Biochemist and a Medical Writer, Editor and Teacher by profession, with 20+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Barbara has started her own medical writing and consultancy business (Hawkeye Medical Limited) and built...

Adrian Haines

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Dr Adrian Haines is the Head of Science and Technology at Sobi AG, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Adrian has extensive experience in generating mammalian cell lines suitable for the GMP production of biologics and is extensively involved in the...

Anna Harrington-Morozova

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Anna Harrington-Morozova is a regulatory, drug development and external relations professional with over 20 years’ experience gained working in a Regulatory Authority, academia and industry. Anna graduated in Russia as a pharmacist. After...

John E. Harrison

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Professor John Harrison is an acknowledged cognition expert whose principal professional interest is in helping people understand, maintain, and enhance their cognitive skills. He is Chief Scientific Officer at Scottish Brain Sciences where he...

Heba Hashem

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Heba has been working with Regulatory Affairs in the Middle East for more than 25 years. She has a Pharmaceutical and Business background being a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy (Cairo University), RAC certified in addition to an MBA at...

Robert Hersowitz

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Robert Hersowitz has established an international reputation as a management and management development consultant. He has spent the past thirty years designing and delivering programmes and workshops to a wide variety of organisations in Europe,...

Rhydian Howells

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Rhydian Howells, associate director of regulatory affairs at Diamond Pharma services a Propharma group company. 20 years’ experience in the industry, 10 years at a large contract manufacturer developing manufacturing processes and analytical...

Graham Howieson

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Graham Howieson is a pharmaceutical business development consultant, inventor and entrepreneur. He is a highly experienced  and competent leader, with an International pedigree covering UK, EU, USA and Asia. An industry pioneer with a forward...

Rob Hughes

Rob Hughes has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 35 years. Rob started his career in control laboratories before gaining accreditation as a “Qualified Person”. During his career, he has held operational,...

Salma Ismail

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Salma Ismail is the CEO of Twinz Regulatory Affairs Pharmacist Consultants based in South Africa. Salma has over 25 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry and in Regulatory Affairs, which includes understanding of legislation,...

Seema Jaitly

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Dr Seema Jaitly qualified in Medicine from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1992 and worked in hospital medicine for four years. She has worked in the pharma industry for over 18 years at CROs and companies spanning clinical...

Theresa Jeary

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Theresa Jeary holds a Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Science and is eligible to be a Pharmaceutical Qualified Person. Theresa has over 25 years’ experience working in both the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries and has worked in...

David Jefferys

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Dr David Jefferys is Senior Vice President for Global Regulatory, Government Relations, Public Affairs and Patient Safety (EMEA, Russia and Australasia) at Eisai. After qualifying, he worked in clinical and academic medicine before spending 20...

Roger Joby

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Roger Joby:  Director 1to1to1 Project Management Consultancy and Visiting Research Fellow Liverpool JM University An international pharmaceutical project management consultant and educator with over 40 years’ experience, principally for...

Graeme Ladds

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Graeme Ladds, Director of PharSafer, has over 30 years’ experience working in the pharmaceutical industry. Having started his career at Ashbourne Pharmaceuticals in 1989 as Head of Drug Safety & Medical Information, he went on to become Head of...

Ellen Lambrix

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Ellen Lambrix is a Partner in the Bristows Commercial IP team. She has a broad IP experience and specialises in advising clients on non-contentious IP matters with a focus on transactions which involve the development, exploitation and transfer...

Norah Lightowler

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Norah Lightowler is a partner in Lightowler Associates, an independent consultancy offering regulatory advice and support to pharmaceutical companies in or proposing to enter the European market for human pharmaceuticals. They are in their twenty...

Peter A. Lowe

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After a Ph.D and postdoctoral positions in the UK and USA in protein biochemistry Peter joined Celltech (now part of UCB Pharma). There he was involved in biologics discovery. His next relevant position was with Roche where he became a senior...

Mercia Lucouw

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Mercia Lucouw works as a regulatory affairs associate at Qdossier, a Celegence company.She provides regulatory support to a variety of pharmaceutical companies.Mercia holds a bachelor degree in pharmacy (B.Pharm) from the North West University,

Sara Magalhães

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Sara Magalhães works as Regulatory Affairs Consultant at Qdossier, a Celegence company. She provides regulatory affairs consultancy and services to both big- and small-sized pharmaceutical companies, covering a wide variety of products. Sara...

Priyanka Mangle

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Pharmacovigilance Manager at Pharma To Market Ms. Priyanka Mangle is a Pharmacist with Master’s degree in pharmacy and post-graduate diploma in clinical research. She is an experienced Pharmacovigilance professional with hands-on experience in...

Mardon McFarlane

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Mardon McFarlane is an Associate Director in the External Manufacturing group at CRISPR Therapeutics and is responsible for the relationship management and overall governance of an external global network of CDMOs (contract development &...

Makram Nehme

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Makram Nehme is a Regional Regulatory Consultant having relevant experience with multiple multinationals including Parexel international, based in Lebanon. He has more than 10 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry...

Raymond Ng

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Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager at Accestra Consulting Mr. Ng is based in China with almost a decade of regulatory affairs experience of the Chinese market with a Master’s Degree from the University of Nottingham. He has extensive knowledge...

Fred Nicolle

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Fred Nicolle is a UK and European qualified patent attorney (CPA, EPA) at Simmons & Simmons. He has over 15 years experience specialising in patent prosecution and contentious matters for the life sciences sector. He has particular...

Peter O'Callaghan

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Peter O’Callaghan holds BSc and PhD degrees in Genetics from Newcastle University. Since graduation he has gained over 10 years’experience in biotechnology research and development in academia and industry, during which time he co-authored...

Adekunle Onadipe

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Dr Adekunle Onadipe is an Associate Research Fellow in Bioprocess R&D, Cell Line Development at Pfizer Inc. USA. He leads a group of scientists responsible for the construction, development and characterization of mammalian and microbial cell...

Oguz Ozden

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Oguz is a strategy consultant in PwC’s Strategy& practice, leading large, complex and international transformations across the Pharma and Life Sciences sector. He has over 10 years of consulting experience in the sector having worked across...

Paul Palmer

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Paul R Palmer is a Director / Pharmaceutical Consultant and a practicing EU / UK Qualified Person. He has over 35 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry in the development, manufacture and supply of medicinal products and medical...

John Parkinson

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John Parkinson is a Data and Pharmaco-epidemiology Consultant. He previously worked as Director of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) at the MHRA, which developed out of the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) and NIHR Research...

Chris Penfold

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Chris Penfold is an experienced Freelance Packaging Development Specialist and Consultant; a self-motivated, achievement oriented, confident and creative leader with a proven track record in general and technical management. He is a packaging...

John Price

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Dr John Price is a physician consultant in pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs, working with several small biotechnology companies in North East USA planning submissions for marketing approval of oncology, haematology, renal and orphan...

Ilona Putz

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Ilona Putz is the founder and General Manager of PULONA Emerging Markets based in the UAE since 2008. Her company is dedicated to creating and developing tailor-made business concepts including regulatory consultancy for international...

Stephen Reese

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Stephen Reese is a partner at Clifford Chance and advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including patents, trade marks, trade secrets and copyright. Stephen represents and advises a broad range of...

Irene Rossi

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Irene Rossi is the Head of New Modalities Pharmaceutical Development at Nanopharm, an Aptar Company (UK). Irene obtained a MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 2014 and a PhD in Drugs, Biomolecules and Health Products at the Food and...

Joanne Roza

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Joanne Roza works as a senior regulatory affairs consultant at Qdossier. She is involved in regulatory affairs consultancy and has also expertise in regulatory operations for big- and small-sized pharmaceutical companies. Joanne holds a bachelor...

Saad Shakir

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Saad Shakir is a pharmacoepidemiologist and drug safety physician. He has worked in the fields of pharmacovigilance, pharmacoepidemiology and risk management for 30 years, initially at the UK Regulatory Authority, then the international...

Paul Shields

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Dr. Shields holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has 33 years of experience in process development and manufacturing of APIs and drug products,...

Jag Shur

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Dr Shur is an academic and entrepreneur having over 100 published scientific papers and was CEO of Nanopharm Ltd, which he led to a successful exit in 2019. Jag’s main area of research and commercial endeavour is in the complex topical...

Susan Singleton

Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London solicitor’s firm, Singletons, which specialises in competition law, intellectual property, data protection and corporate/commercial law, both non-contentious and...

Claire Smith

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Claire is a partner at Bristows specialising in commercial and intellectual property transactions, most notably in the life sciences and technology sectors. She advises on a wide range of commercial arrangements (the large majority of which are...

Sanjeev Srivastav

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Dr Sanjeev Srivastav, Director of PV Signal, is a highly analytical and quality-focused healthcare professional with over 20 years experience in Clinical Medicine, Pharmaceuticals and Health administration. He provides safety consultation on PV...

Mario Subramaniam

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Mario Subramaniam is a Legal Director in the Life Sciences Transactions team at Pinsent Masons. As a former research scientist, he has a passion for the life sciences and has expertise in advising clients on intellectual property, commercial and...

Julie Suman

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Dr. Julie D. Suman is the Vice President of Scientific Affairs for Aptar Pharma. She manages strategic scientific planning and Aptar’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Suman is also the co-founder of Next Breath. She holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from...

Greg Thay

Greg Thay is the founder and principle human factors consultant at THAY Medical, and has over twenty years’ experience in the medical and pharmaceutical industries. He has worked in many therapy areas (orthopaedics, infusion therapy,...

Ben Thomas

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Ben Thomas is a Managing Associate at Simmons & Simmons. He has experience of working across a range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, with a focus on patent and supplementary protection certificate litigation....

Raphael Tian

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Pharmacovigilance Manager at Accestra Consulting Mr. Raphael Tian is a seasoned pharmacovigilance Manager at Accestra Consulting, with extensive experience in top global pharmaceutical companies and a focus on the Chinese market. With hands-on...

Hans van Bruggen

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Hans van Bruggen is CEO of and Senior Regulatory Affairs Scientist at Qdossier. He holds an MSc. in Pharmaceutical Medicine from the University of Surrey (UK) and has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 35 years, primarily at...

Marloes van der Geer

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Marloes van der Geer works as senior regulatory affairs scientist at Qdossier. Marloes holds a master in Life Sciences (Drug Innovation) from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. For nine years she held several positions at Hoffmann-la...

James Visanji

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James holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Manchester, Masters in Clinical Genetics from the University of Sheffield, Chartered Linguist status from the Chartered Institute of Linguists, and the European Medical Writers Association Nick...

Christopher Waterhouse

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Chris Waterhouse is Managing Director of iDi Pac Ltd, a member of the Packaging Collective Leadership team as well as a former Chairman of the UK Packaging Society.Chris has over 30 years’ experience in the Packaging Industry having worked in a...

Philip Webber

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Dr. Philip Webber obtained his first degree from Cambridge University, UK (Natural Sciences, Genetics) and then carried out research on the regulation of brain-specific genes at Warwick University, UK, where he obtained his PhD. He qualified as a...

Andrew Willis

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Andrew Willis is an independent consultant providing expert advice and training on global regulatory solutions and pharmaceutical development. Previously, he worked for Catalent Pharma Solutions as VP Regulatory Affairs & Consulting Services,...

Lindsey Woolley

Lindsey Woolley is Partner and Patent Attorney at Mewburn Ellis LLP, which she joined in 2002. Lindsey deals mainly with drafting and prosecution work and advises on portfolio management of interrelated patent families. Lindsey also deals with...

Tim Worden

Tim Worden is a partner in Taylor Wessing LLP’s intellectual property department, and is based in the firm’s Cambridge and London offices. He specialises in transactional, non-contentious and regulatory intellectual property in the life...

Helen Ye

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RA & PV Director at Accestra Consulting  Ms. Ye has been dedicated to regulatory affairs consulting for 15 years with a Pharmacy degree from Zhejiang University, China.  She is experienced in regulatory compliance of China market access &...

Marylene Zhan

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Senior consultant at Accestra Consulting Ms. Marylene Zhan is a senior consultant at Accestra Consulting with extensive experience in pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs, with a Master's Degree from the Zhongnan University of Economics and...