Roles
Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
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Biography
After graduating in medicine and surgery and specializing in psychiatry, he completed his training overseas with a postdoctoral fellowship in neurobiology and neuropharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (from 1990 to 1992), and then took a position as an associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington (from 1993 to 1994). He then returned to Italy where he continued his research activity both at the University of Cagliari and at the National Research Council (CNR) in Cagliari, reaching the position of Research Director in 2001, without ever breaking the link with the USA, where in fact he moved his permanent residence in August 2010 and where he became, in 2011, Voluntary Professor at the University of Miami.
He has been a research manager at CNR since 2002 and, from the same year until 2010, he was President and CEO of Neuroscience PharmaNess Scarl, a consortium owned by the University of Cagliari and the CNR, dedicated to the preclinical evaluation of new active pharmacological principles. In the same period he is also Head of the Operational Unit of the Institute of Biomedical Technologies, first, and the Institute of Translational Pharmacology, then, of the CNR site located at the Science and Technology Park of Sardinia, at Pula (Cagliari).
In 2008 he was the main creator (and one of the founders) of the first company with entirely public capital (Autonomous Region of Sardinia) dedicated to Translational Pharmacology of Phase-1 studies for the discovery of new drugs.
His unique expertise in the preclinical evaluation of new active ingredients combined with a long clinical experience as a specialist in mood disorders, anxiety, and depression earned him the appointment, in 2010, as Permanent Representative for Italy at the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use CHMP of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a position that was reconfirmed in 2013 and 2016. From November 2011 to October 2016 he served as Director-General of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA). At EMA he is also a permanent member of the Scientific Advice Working Party and participates in the Central Nervous System Working Group (CNSWG). From 2013 to 2016, Luca Pani is the Chair of the Management Board Telematics Committee (MBTC) and of the European Risk Management Strategy Group (ERMS). Since January 2017 he becomes the Chief Scientific Officer at EDRA-LSWR, Publishing Company in Milan and since June of the same year, he holds the same position at Inpeco, an Italian-Swiss company leader in mechatronics and laboratory automation in the medical field based in Novazzano, Switzerland from which he resigned at the end of 2021. At the end of 2017, Luca Pani accepts the role of Executive Advisor of Neurocog Trial based in Durham in North Caroline, USA. One year later, in October of 2018, NeuroCog Trials becomes VeraSci and in July 2021 VeraSci is acquired by WCG while Luca retains his role of VP for Regulatory Strategy and Market Access Innovation. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
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Honors & Awards
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Teaching Interests
Luca Pani, teaches from clinical psychopharmacology in the context of modern diseases nosography (Medical School) to more advanced strategies for treatment-resistant conditions to Residents (PGY-1 to PGY-4) as well regulatory trials design and evaluation. -
Research Interests
His current research interests lie in virtual reality assessment tools to detect early signs of pathological ailments and designing decision tree algorithms to negotiate drug pricing under conditions of uncertainty by using clinical and sensor-generated data to continuously populate the unknown variabilities of effectiveness and by linking them to outcome values dynamically recorded in real-world evidence. -
Publications
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Professional Activities
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