Erika Udovic
Basel, Switzerland
Erika Udovic is currently working as a Senior Principal Scientist at Novartis with experience in human health hazard and safety evaluations of pharmaceutical impurities, including extractables and leachables. Her main responsibilities include scientific, toxicological, and regulatory support to ensure risk is appropriately managed. She provides safety assessments for various administration routes, applying computational and read-across methodologies where required.
She is a member of internal cross-functional teams and committees, as well as external consortiums (e.g., the Safety Working Group within ELSIE). Prior to this, she worked as an occupational toxicologist responsible for the compilation of risk assessment reports for drug substances, intermediates, and raw materials for worker and patient safety purposes. Erika has a background in Veterinary Medicine and found her passion in Toxicology.