Leonardo Sganga

Biologist. PhD and Postdoc in Biomedical Sciences.
With 10+ years of industry experience working within Medical Affairs, Evidence Generation, and Diagnostics. Comprehensive Knowledge of Oncology & Drug Development Process.

Main achivements in latests positions are:
✓ Built local diagnostics strategy and infrastructure preparing market for emerging biomarker commercialization.
✓ Developed ID. Testing Platform with cross-function team adapting into an evolving oncology portfolio (AURA; FLAURA; ADAURA; Study-19; SOLO-1, SOLO-2; PAOLA; PROfound). Developed ID.ASMA Diagnostic platform for severe asthma patients identification workflow (FASENRA)
✓ Drove strategic workstreams with external stakeholders as part of long-term diagnostics vision including: (AR) BRCA In government (BIG) project (comoditization of Genomics Diagnostics in public platform), (CL) workflow for EGFR testing in Lung Cancer including validation of reference labs and HCPs algorithm mindset.
✓ Ideation, planning and implementation of a home sampling plan for genomic and molecular diagnosis for patients with ovarian and lung cancer in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic
✓ Built evidence generation projects from patients enrollment, through laboratory testing validation (PROSpectLatam, HRR), sample collection, poster preparation, collaboration with main author on writing until statistical data analysis, graph and figures development and lastly developing the final publication (BRCA, FLABRA).
✓ Supported different Therapeutic Areas to help develop and strengthen their publications, posters, etc. working as a local PSO (Publication Sign-Off) coordinator