INFARMED, Portugal
Drug Evaluation Department – Scientific Evaluation Unit
Maria de Fátima Vieira Ventura, Pharmacist, PhD in Biochemistry, is the Director of the Scientific Evaluation Unit of the Medicines Evaluation Directorate of Infarmed since 2017. She has been a member of Infarmed’s Medicines Evaluation Committee since 2010, as quality assessor on chemical and biological medicinal products including biosimilars. Since 2016, she is the alternate Portuguese member of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and also represents this committee since then at EMA’s Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP) and Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCPWP).