GIANNUZZI Viviana

PharmD, PhD in cellular biochemistry and pharmacology, post-graduate master in Clinical Research of Medicines.

My main areas of expertise are: ethics and regulatory, R&D for rare and paediatric diseases, informed consent and assent, health data processing for research purposes, European medicine regulatory procedures.

Currently, I coordinate the Research & Innovation Department of Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi and participate in international and national research projects and consortia; in most of them, I lead the ethics and regulatory activities.

I am member of the Paediatric Committee, European Medicine Agency (EMA), as delegate of the European Commission to represent patient’ organisations.

I am member of international groups: EMA Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCWP); European Platform for Regulatory Science Research,  INHERENT (International Hemoglobinopathy Research Network), TEDDY network (The European Network of Excellence for Paediatric Research), EURORDIS Therapeutic Action Group, Regulatory & Ethics workstream of GA4GH, EPTRI (European Paediatric Transnational Research Infrastructure).

I also joined paediatric working groups, e.g. Ethics Working Group of EnprEMA; Working Group on Rare Cancers of ECPC (European Cancer Patient Coalition); paediatric pharmacology Working Group of the Italian Society of Pharmacology.

Author/co-author of peer reviewed publications and abstracts, reviewer for indexed journals and speaker at national and international congresses/meetings in the relevant fields of expertise.