The EAHP Board, elected for three-year terms, oversees the association’s activities. Comprising directors responsible for core functions, it meets regularly to implement strategic goals. Supported by EAHP staff, the Board controls finances, coordinates congress organization, and ensures compliance with statutes and codes of conduct.
Affiliation
KU Leuven
Country
Belgium
1. Current Status, Position
Prof Dr Isabelle Huys is currently Professor of Regulatory Sciences at the University of Leuven. She is teaching and researching in the domain of regulatory frameworks on medicinal product development, market approval and market access, as well as intellectual property rights.
2. Education
Prof Dr Isabelle Huys is a pharmacist by training (KU Leuven, Belgium), with a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences (toxicology) from KU Leuven, Belgium and a further specialisation (LL.M.) in intellectual property rights (IPR) and regulatory sciences (Max-Planck-Institute for IPR, Munich, Germany).
3. Research Area
Prof Dr Isabelle Huys’ research focuses on access to medicines and therapies. The research program studies diverse legal and regulatory aspects along the continuum of a medicinal product life cycle, from medicinal product discovery, development, approval, reimbursement and market adoption. The research program focuses on all types of medicinal products (small molecules, biologicals, advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)) and diagnostics. Topics include biobanking and access to (human) biological samples and data, the use of real-world data/evidence (RWE) in medicinal product development and market access, repurposing of medicines for other (e.g. cancer) indications, patient preferences in medicinal product development and evaluation, precision medicine and companion diagnostics, off-patent strategies of biological products and market access of biosimilar and drug shortages.
4. Conflict of interest: none