Gabriela Burian

Dr. Burian has more than 15 years of clinical research and development experience focused on retinal disease, with extensive practice in designing, planning and executing global clinical programs. Dr. Burian joined Novartis Pharma in 2005 as Clinical Research Scientist and later held various leadership and management positions including Global Program Medical Director. She was also responsible for clinical development strategies across multiple retinal indications, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema (DME), retinal vein occlusion (RVO) and pathologic myopia (PM). She successfully led the global (ex-U.S.) regulatory interactions and approvals of Lucentis® for DME, RVO and PM indications in more than 100 countries.

Most recently, Dr. Burian served as the Ophthalmology Early Program Leader at F. Hoffmann-La Roche, where she was responsible for establishing the translational medicine group and leading early clinical development strategy. Dr. Burian received an M.D. from Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Romania, and a Master’s in Public Health in epidemiology from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. After completing her graduate work, Dr. Burian was a Clinical Research Manager and member of the faculty in the Ophthalmology Department at Emory University.