Sylvana Rizk
Sylvana received her MSc. in Laboratory Medicine form Lebanese University, and an Associate Research Fellow Immunology and Transplantation. She is a Certified Auditor Quality assurance program ISO 9001:2000 (QMI Canada). She has an extensive experience in immunology and transplantation testing as well as in basic research. She is a member of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT), the Arab Society of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation and Member of the Asian Society of Transplantation (AST). She is a young key opinion leader at the International Transplant Society (TTS). Her main domain is the design, development and implementation of protocols for therapeutic drug monitoring and Immunological tests as well as to ensure the quality of clinical trials and validation of data. She has coordinated many bioequivalence studies in healthy volunteers as well as clinical trials. Sylvana has many publications (over 20 in international journals and was a key note speaker at local and regional congresses.
Experience
- Monitoring of clinical trials for the evaluation of different immunosuppressive drugs (Cyclosporine, Mycophenolate Mofetil and Tacrolimus) in healthy volunteers and in transplant patients
- Participated in the development of new assays for determining drug levels inside the cell at their site of action.
- Monitored at least 30 bioequivalence studies in healthy volunteers and in in patients
- Part owner of 2 patency of new methods for therapeutic drug monitoring
- Audited pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and blood banks as part of a quality assurance program
