2019 winners and finalists
The winners of the TOPRA Awards for Regulatory Excellence 2019 were announced at a formal dinner and awards ceremony at The Merchant Taylors' Hall in London on 21 November.
    
        
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             COMMUNICATION 
            
             
             
            
                - WINNER - Martin Harvey Allchurch, Principal International Affairs Officers, EMA, and Governance and Board Relations Manager – External Relations, Unitaid, World Health Organization, Switzerland
 
                - FINALIST - Will Drury, Senior Business Associate, Cyton Biosciences Ltd, the Netherlands
 
                - FINALIST - Global Regulatory Affairs, EU Regulatory Team, Primary Care Sanofi, France
 
             
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             CONTRIBUTION 
             
             
            
                - WINNER - Steve Lee, Senior Regulatory Policy Manager – IVD, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Nishant Mahajan, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Clinical Development, Norgine Limited, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Paul McCleverty, Senior Director, Regulatory Oncology Regional Head, Janssen, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Sarah McFarlane, Regulatory Affairs Director, AstraZeneca, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Sarah Roberts, Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, PRA Health Sciences, UK 
 
             
             
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             EDUCATION 
             
             
            
                - WINNER - Daniela Drago, former Associate Professor at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, USA and now Senior Director, US Regulatory Sciences, Biogen, USA
 
                - FINALIST - Roche's Rare diseases Regulatory Expert network (RaRE), Switzerland
 
                - FINALIST - Caroline Vanneste, former Manager, Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Canada
 
             
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             FUTURES  
             
            
            
                - WINNER - Regulatory team at Boyds, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Global Stem Cell Technology, Belgium
 
                - FINALIST - Karen Taylor and Sebastian Payne, Deloitte LLP Centre for Health Solutions, UK 
 
             
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             HORIZON 
             
             
            
                - WINNER - Jack Daley, Regulatory Operations Manager, Gilead Sciences, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Ashley Dukes, Manager, Regulatory Affairs Therapeutic Group, Global Regulatory & Quality, Research & Development, GSK, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Clara Desvignes, Senior Regulatory Scientist, Voisin Consulting Life Sciences (VCLS), France
 
                - FINALIST - Vatsala Patel, Regulatory Affairs Executive, Regulis Consulting, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Sabine Ruhle, Senior Regulatory Associate, Boyds, UK
 
             
             
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             INNOVATION 
             
             
            
                - WINNER - MedBoard, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Business Workflow Enablement for Labeling (BWEL), Merck & Co, Inc, USA (BWEL Leads: Anita Cunningham, Exec Director Global Labeling Regulatory Affairs, John Janick, Director Innovation & Information Management, Jamie Brubaker Hall, Director Labeling Operations Innovation & Information Management)
 
                - FINALIST - Joyce Tait, Co-Director, Innogen Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
 
             
             
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             INSPIRATION  
            
                - WINNER - Lavonne Patton, Director, Regulatory Affairs and Product Development for the Regulatory Sciences Group of Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions, USA
 
                - FINALIST - Janet Lewis, Head of Regulatory Affairs MCO (UK & Ireland), GRA Region Europe, Sanofi, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Lucy Clayton, Therapy Area Director, Clinical Development, Norgine Limited, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Louisa Ballard, Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs & Quality Compliance, EMEA - STERIS Corporation, UK
 
             
             
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            SUPPORT 
            
             
            
                - WINNER - Regulatory Affairs Team, Regulis, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Clinigen Group Regulatory Affairs Team, UK
 
                - FINALIST - Klifovet AG, Munich, Germany
 
                - FINALIST - MEDSPERO, Dubai, UAE 
 
             
             
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             LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD   
             
            
                - WINNER - David Jefferys
 
                - WINNER - John Deavin
 
             
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