Lisa Benincosa is currently Senior Vice-President, Head of Clinical Strategy Division at Allucent.  Previously she held the position of Global Head of Translational Medicine at EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany. She received her BS degree in Pharmacy (1987) from West Virginia University and Ph.D. (1993) from the University at Buffalo (UB), School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.  In 1992, Lisa joined the Clinical Pharmacokinetic Department at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals where she rose to position of Section Head with additional global responsibility for preclinical and clinical PK/PD. She joined Pfizer in 2001 as Director in Clinical Pharmacokinetics/ Pharmacodynamics and became Executive Director and Groton/New London Clinical Pharmacology Site Head in 2003.  Lisa joined Roche in 2009 and was Vice-President/ Deputy Head Pharmaceutical Sciences and Global Head of DMPK, Clinical Pharmacology and Bioanalytical R&D over her 10-year tenure at Roche.