Viviana Giannuzzi | Head of Research and Innovation Department
Gianni Benzi Pharmacological Research Foudation

PharmD, PhD in cellular biochemistry and pharmacology, post-graduate degree master in Clinical Research of Medicines. Her main areas of expertise are: ethics and regulatory, informed consent and assent, health data processing for research purposes, European medicine regulatory procedures, R&D for rare and paediatric diseases. She performed non-clinical research in rare diseases and she was the Secretariat Scientific Assistant of the Ethics Committee in Lecce (IT). Currently, at Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi onlus she coordinates the Research & Innovation Department and participates in EU and national research projects. In most of them, she leads the ethics and regulatory activities. She is member representing patient' organisations of Paediatric Committee, European Medicine Agency (EMA). She is/was member of international and national working groups (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.