Building the Luxembourg's Medicines Agency

Building the Luxembourg's Medicines Agency
The TOPRA IN Benelux Community Steering Group are pleased to invite you to a webinar which Ms. Anna Chioti will present on the current organisation of the Division of Pharmacy and Medicines (DPM) and the work in progress for creating a new medicines and health products agency for Luxembourg.




Date: 14/10/2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 GMT / 13:00 - 14:00 CET
  
Duration: 1 hour
 
Suitable for
TOPRA Members and TOPRA International Groups (IN) interested in how the Luxembourg Ministry of Health currently is organised and operates as well as the progress towards a future state of affairs.

Benefits for participants
This is a unique opportunity to get an update on the work in progress in Luxembourg towards the creation of an Agency as well as to get information on the current activities and where to find information on the current processes.
 
In this webinar, there will be specific coverage of:
 • The current organisation, main priorities and focus areas of the Division of Pharmacy and Medicines (DPM).
• The regulatory processes in place and where to find information covering the portfolio of activities of the DPM
        (medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, SOHO, clinical trials, compassionate use, Health Technology Assessment 
        (HTA).
• The vision, strategy and progress to date in creating the new medicines' and health products' agency of
        Luxembourg.

The session will be facilitated by Frank Vandendriessche, Paula van Hennik, and Véronique Debaut, members of the TOPRA IN Benelux Community Steering Group

 
Frank Vandendriessche, Regulatory Affairs Consultant, Managing Director Ficaja Farma bv
Frank is a Pharmacist with a PhD and has been active in scientific and strategic regulatory affairs for more than 25 years at Pfizer AH, GSK Biologicals and MSD and has been a regulatory affairs consultant for 10 years.

 
Paula van Hennik, Vice President, Clinical, Regulatory Sciences – Department.
Paula has a background as a scientist with a PhD in haematology and has been active in the field of clinical regulatory affairs for 14 years with experience as a regulator, including 11 years at the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB)/College ter Beoordeling van Geneesmiddelen (CGB), and for the last two years she has been occupying a consultancy role. 


 
Véronique Debaut, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Will Pharma
Véronique graduated as a bioengineer and has worked in regulatory affairs in several settings and for several organisations, including Baxter, GSK, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), Cromsource and the European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises EBE, a specialised group within the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).

Speaker


Anna Chioti is a medical doctor with additional training in public health and business administration.  After an initial period working in industry, she joined the Luxembourg Institute of Health and later the Luxembourg Health Directorate. She sits on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Management Board and Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and is a member of several organisations, such as the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), European Patients' Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) Luxembourg, the Institut National du Cancer Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Public Health Association (LUXPHA), where she participated at board level. In her role as Head of the Division of Pharmacy and Medicines, she is leading the activities to build a Luxembourg Agency. 
The main webinar presentation will run for approximately [50] minutes, which will then be followed by a Q&A session.

PRICING
TOPRA Members: Free 
Non-member: £45
When
14/10/2025 12:00 - 13:00
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