Dr Souad Messahel is a neuroscientist with a PhD is Clinical Neurology. Souad has over 20 years' experience in translational neuroscience and in novel drug discovery pathway, biomarker development, and clinical trials. Her skills focused on clinical development of therapies for rare neurological disease, managing a portfolio of multiple disease programs, translational and clinical stage. Souad has extensive experience in all phases of clinical trials, designing and executing clinical development plans, and leading cross functional teams. Her experience includes writing clinical protocols, FDA IND, BLA documents, quality manuals, data and safety management and reporting documents for FDA regulated trials. Her  contribution to clinical research involved managing and coordinating multiple translational projects in the US and Europe.