Nancy Van Overstraeten

May 2015-now: Clinical Operations Manager

Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (CUSL)

• Lead and coordinate an international multi-centric clinical study
• Define roles and responsabilities of partners
• Management of contracts, budget and time for deliverables and milestones
• Risk mitigation
• Responsible for reporting
• Interface between stakeholders/partners/procurement
• Communication tools: website (creation and management), logo, social networks (community manager)

September 2016-now: Research coordinator of the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC)

Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

• Setup of operational processes aligned with business priorities
• Translational research facilitator
• Head of quality assurance
• Risk mitigation
• Interface between stakeholders/partners/procurement
• Project submission
• Communication tools: website (creation and management), logo, social networks (community manager)

January 2015-april 2015: Project coordinator

Department of scientific writing and regulatory affairs, 4clinics

• Development of project schedules and follow-up and distribution of tasks
• Development of tracking tools
• Calculation of metrics
• Liaison between operational team and management team
• Scientific writing of clinical trial documents (synopsis, ICF, narratives,…)
• Quality officer

March 2014-October 2015: various professional projects (publications, book proposal, peer-reviews) and trainings (management, emotional intelligence)

November 2013-March 2014: Expert scientist in R&D (clinical studies of a major vaccine)

Vaccine discovery and development (VDD) Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), Rixensart

• Head of a unit responsible for 3 laboratories (20 people) performing development and clinical testing (immunoassays)
• Strategy planning online with business priorities
• Follow up and continuous development: improvement of quality and integration of innovation in techniques and procedures according to a lean management

February 2010-October 2013: Project manager in R&D (senior postdoc researcher)

Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve

• Project management: update of working packages and tasks; follow up of checkpoints for securing an on time delivery; networking; reporting
• Development of medical devices based on biosensors for diagnostic purpose (IVD): Product design, optimization, troubleshooting and validation
• Use of surface physico-chemical methods: ellipsometry, XRR, XPS, zeta potential, double-layer, microfluidic physics, wettabillity

May 2006-May 2010: Project manager in R&D (postdoc researcher)

Research Unit in Cellular Biochemistry and Biology (URBC) University of Namur (Unamur), Namur

• Project management: update of working packages and tasks; follow up of checkpoints for securing an on time deliver; reporting
• Development of a gene therapy-based treatment against skin cancer (carcinoma)
• Expertise in cancer cell culture, confocal and fluorescence microscopy imaging, flow cytometry, killing assay with hydroxyurea, MTT assay

November 1998-October 2000: Project manager

Section of Biosafety and Biotechnology (SBB) Institute for Public Health-Louis Pasteur, Brussels

• Project management: detection of GMO in food
• Development and improvement of methods
• National harmonization of methods
• Representation of Belgium to OECD taskforce

November 1997-May 1998: Research assistant in R&D

Cellular and Environmental Physiology Department (CEP), Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), Dundee, Scotland, UK

• Project assistant: study of the dormancy in potato
• Development and improvement of biochemimical methods
• Oversea experience