Dr. Eduardo Vianna

Cross-functional leadership for the development of a drug in rare disease Ensuring alliance with partner company

- Leading Optical Coherence Tomography substudy as part of Phase III program - Interaction with regulatory agencies and local Ethics Committee - Participation in biomarker and imaging substudies subteams

Responsible for a team of Publication Managers Overseeing the medical communication strategy of Neurodegenerative Diseases at Merck Serono

- Pro-active role in exploratory and secondary analyses of major phase II and III trials - Management of third-party CROs for results being delivered in time - Responsible for resource planning, budgets, timelines, and project plans - Leader of cross-functional publication steering committee - Contribution to the development and implementation of the global publication plans according to the global strategy - Participation in clinical trial investigator meetings and KOL management

- Co-managing translational clinical trials (Proof-of-Concept) sponsored by pharmaceutical and food industries - Responsible for design of clinical study protocols, CRF, Ethic committees documents, as well as management and analyses of biomarkers studies in chronic functional pain syndromes and gastrointestinal disorders - Development and execution of Statistical Analysis Plan of clinical pharmacology study in functional pain disorders

- Retrospective epidemiological study on clinical stroke rehabilitation and neuroanatomical markers - Development of feasibility study of simultaneous usage of transcranial magnetic stimulation and fMRI

- Retrospective epidemiological study of clinical neuropsychological tests and neuroanatomical structural MRI in a stroke patient database - Quality of life study in patients with chronic autoimmune gastrointestinal disease (Crohn’s Disease) - Development of cognitive and neuropsychological tests

- Behavioral pharmacological studies in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy - Immunohistochemistry and histological analyses

- Elaboration of manufacture norms (SOP, GMP) in the pharmaceutical industry - Supervision of implementation of GMP norms in a team setting

- Dissertation: “The Role of the Gut in Emotions and Feelings”

- Dissertation: “The Role of Purinergic Receptors on the Pathogenesis of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy”