Alison Cave is a Principal Scientific Administrator at the European Medicines Agency within the Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Department. She has over 20 years of academic research experience in the cardiovascular field gained in the US and UK. Prior to joining the EMA she was Head of Cellular, Developmental and Physiological Sciences at the Wellcome Trust and, prior to this, an Expert Scientific Assessor at the UK Medicines and HealthCare products Regulatory Agency.