The S2BN Virtual Career Cafe - In Focus: Regulatory Affairs

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Join us for the S2BN Virtual Career Café! This interactive, online event series aims to profile career paths for scientists outside of academia. During these one and half-hour, ask-me-anything events, attendees can ask our featured guests questions about their career journey, current role, and seek advice on navigating career transitions from academia. Our sixth event focuses on the role of Regulatory Affairs. 

Objectives: 

• Profile the career journeys of two experts in regulatory affairs
• Provide an overview of roles and responsibilities in regulatory affairs
• Answer your questions related to career transitions from science to regulatory affairs

Featured Guests:

Sharnpreet Kooner, M. Biotech, Regulatory Affairs Project Leader, GSK

Raymund Rama, MSc, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Gilead Sciences

Moderated by: Bruce Seet, PhD, MBA, Founder & President S2BN; Director of Medical Affairs, Sanofi Pasteur. 

Guest Biographies

Sharnpreet Kooner, M. Biotech, Regulatory Affairs Project Leader, GSK

Sharnpreet Kooner is a member of the Regulatory Affairs team at GlaxoSmithKline Inc. As a Project Leader of the Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) team, Sharnpreet supports the filing of Regulatory submissions for pharmaceuticals, biologics, and vaccines to Health Canada. After completing a student internship in Regulatory Affairs at GSK in 2018, Sharnpreet spent 1.5 years as a Regulatory Associate at Baxter Corporation, prior to returning to GSK in her current role. Sharnpreet is a graduate of the MBiotech program of the University of Toronto, and the Honour's Biology and Pharmacology Co-op program at McMaster University.

Raymund Rama, MSc, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Gilead Sciences

Raymund Rama is the Director of Regulatory Affairs at Gilead Sciences and previously worked at Roche. 

Supporters 

The S2BN would like to acknowledge and thank PHMI at Queen’s University for supporting this event.

For those interested in transitioning into pharma and gaining internship experience check out the Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Management and Innovation Graduate Diploma program at Queen’s University:  https://www.queensu.ca/sgs/programs-degrees/pharmaceutical-healthcare-management-and-innovation