Speakers
Dr Laura Squire
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Laura Joined the MHRA in 2021 to oversee a large portfolio designed to ensure the quality and access of products to the UK market – including scientific advice, licensing assessment, marketing authorisations and device registrations, inspections and standard setting through for example the British Pharmacopoeia and Target Product Profiles. In 2023 Laura was seconded full time to focus on leading the MHRA programme of reforming the UK regulations governing Medical Devices, modernising the existing 2002 regulations to improve patient safety and create a framework which takes account of technological developments and enables innovation.
Laura started her career as a post-doctoral research assistant looking at resistance to anti-malarial drugs at the Liverpool Institute of Tropical Medicine following her PhD and BSc in Biochemistry and Physiology. She has spent most of her career since then as a Civil Servant. After many years in operational work Laura moved into government policy in 2014. In parallel, she went back to university, gaining an Executive Master’s degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics. Laura has extensive experience of regulatory and organisational transformation through her wider policy and operational work in other major government departments. She joined the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency from the Department of Health and Social Care, where she worked extensively on the COVID-19 vaccine deployment programme.