Sabine Straus To Lead EMA's Pharmacovigilance Committee

Dutch regulator Sabine Straus will take over as chair of the European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee when the UK’s June Raine leaves the post this year.

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Sabine Straus will start chairing the PRAC in September • Source: EMA

Sabine Straus of the Medicines Evaluation Board in the Netherlands is to become the new chair of the European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee.

Straus’s three-year mandate starts in September. She will replace the PRAC’s current chair, June Raine of the UK’s Medicines and...

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