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Dr Alison Webster
Director of the Infectious Diseases Medicines Development Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

Dr Alison Webster is Director of Infectious Diseases Medicines Development Centre at GlaxoSmithKline, where her role is to develop and implement the strategy for the clinical development of several antibiotics and antivirals. Her experience in the influenza area has encompassed design of clinical studies with zanamivir, interpretation and publication of results, authoring of dossiers for regulatory submission, and interactions with regulatory agencies in the assessment of safety and efficacy of this product

In the context of pandemic planning, she has represented the company and given presentations at meetings with the WHO, EFPIA and IFPMA. Within the UK, she has led the clinical component of GSK's submission to NICE for the appraisal of zanamivir, and submitted oral evidence to the committee preparing the Royal Society/Academy of Medical Sciences report on pandemic influenza in 2006.

Dr Webster is also Honorary Lecturer in Medical Virology at Imperial College London.

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