Ramona Belfiore-Oshan, PhD

Ramona Belfiore-Oshan, Ph.D., serves as Executive Director of C-Path’s Duchenne Regulatory Science Consortium (D-RSC), providing overall leadership, administrative and scientific oversight of the consortium. Dr. Belfiore-Oshan completed her bachelor’s in biological science, master’s in molecular biology and Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Catania (Italy). Her doctoral research studies focused on neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. Next, Dr. Belfiore-Oshan pursued a postdoctoral research position in neurology, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai while developing and applying skills in science communication, grantsmanship for research professionals and scientific project management for academia and industry. Dr. Belfiore-Oshan joined C-Path in 2021 as the Associate Director for D-RSC and has supported consortium efforts to implement modeling and simulation work for multiple regulatory submissions. Her work with D-RSC is focused on shaping and pursuing the development and execution of current and future consortium activities with the goal of accelerating therapy development to address the urgent unmet medical needs in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other dystrophinopathies.