Dolores Hernan Perez de la Ossa, PhD European Medicines Agency

Dolores Hernan Perez de la Ossa, is a Senior Quality Specialist at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she has been working for over 13 years. In her role, she provides scientific peer-review of all quality aspects throughout the lifecycle of medicinal products, supporting European Committees, Working Parties as well as the preparation of guidelines. Within the Quality Office Dolores is responsible of the scientific secretariat of the Quality Working Party (QWP) and is the topic lead for QbD/continuous manufacturing, nanomedicines, and CMC aspects of PRIority MEdicines/early access schemes, among others. She represents EMA at the ICH Q13 EWG, IPRP nanomedicines working group and ASTM E55. During the ongoing pandemic she has been involved in the authorisation and lifecycle management of mRNA vaccines and several rapid scientific advices for COVID-19 products. Prior to joining EMA, Dolores obtained a European PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain conducting research stays at USA Virginia Commonwealth University and the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of the Italian National Research Council.