Valentina Petrusevska, PhD EDQM

Valentina is a Scientific Program Manager in European Pharmacopoeia Department of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM)and is a qualified pharmacist with a PhD in Chemistry obtained from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

She started her professional career in 2006 with a community pharmacy internship and, in May 2007, went on to join the pharmaceutical company Pliva (later owned by Teva Pharmaceuticals) as a Research and Development analyst, remaining with the company for 13 years.

From 2015, she was a project leader within the Oral Dosage Forms Division and in 2017 she was promoted to the role of the Principal Scientist – Analytical Project Leader for externally developed products. In April 2020, she left Teva to join the EDQM where she currently co-ordinates and provides the technical secretariat for the work of three Groups of Experts and Working Parties that elaborate pharmacopoeial texts covering plastic materials, plastic and glass containers for pharmaceutical use and closures, and non-biological complexes.