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Marisa Delbò PharmD Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Expert Circle on Human Blood, Tissues & Cells and Advanced Therapies Medicinal Products PIC/S Italy


Marisa Delbò is a pharmacist, graduated summa cum laude and specialized in “Chemistry and Technology of natural organic substances”.



After about 5 years of experience in private and public pharmacies, she carried out full time activity of study and research at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome.



In 1995 she started working at the Ministry of Health as an assessor and a GMP inspector and continued her activity as a senior GMP inspector at the Italian Medicines Agency, AIFA, when the Agency was established in 2004. She was Head of various AIFA Offices: Product Quality Office, GMP inspectorate, Risk Management Office and GMP Inspections and Manufacturing Authorizations of APIs Office.



Marisa Delbò was appointed as a member of several national and international committees and working groups and has experience as an assessors of the certification of suitability of the European Pharmacopoeia (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare, EDQM). She was Italian representative in the PIC/S Committee and Deputy-chair in the PIC/S Subcommittee on Harmonization.

She was member of the PIC/S working group and the EMA working group on ATMPs and coordinated the joint working group between the Italian competent authorities on issues related to inspections to blood establishments and blood derivatives manufacturing sites. She was Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) and Vice-Chair of the Working Party on Community Monographs and Community List (MLWP) at the European Medicines Agency.



Marisa Delbò was Rapporteur for several European guidance documents, HMPC Rapporteur of the revision of annex 7 of the EU GMP, Rapporteur and peer-reviewer for many EU herbal monographs. She published 5 articles on international peer-reviewed journals and provided several contributions to congresses and national publications.



After her retirement on 2021 April the 1st she continued to cooperate with AIFA and to be the Chair of the PIC/S Expert Circle on Human Blood. Tissues & Cells and ATMPs and the Deputy-Chair of the PIC/S Sub- Committee on Expert Circles.



She is currently a teacher in Seminars, Masters and training courses on GMP inspections and herbal medicinal products.