Sara Cazzaniga is a senior nurse and biologist by training. After 10 years of experiences as a senior intensive care nurse, she had moved to the clinical research field starting as a CRA in an Italian CRO. She has over 15 years of experience in clinical research, where she covered different roles in this field, CRA, Project manager, Clinical Trial lead, Clinical leader. Sara is currently a Clinical R&D Manager at Italfarmaco. In this role, Sara is responsible to develop, the strategic plan for the relevant investigational medicinal products and to implement clinical research projects. Particularly, she has to integrate scientific knowledge and operational expertise to define and suggest to clinical development plan. She also coordinates the Patient Science Liaison team, with the aim to engage the patient communities and help clinical trials meet families’ needs along the way. She has been working in pediatric and rare diseases since 2013.