Curriculum Vitae - Michael Griffith

Mr Griffith is, since December 2005, the new Chairman of EPPOSI – the European Platform for Patient’s Organisations, Science and Industry of which EuropaBio is a supporting member.  EPPOSI is a patient led partner organisation, which has been operating on a European level out of Brussels for the past 10 years.  It aims to establish consensus on healthcare issues relating to the development of therapies, diagnostics and devices and to meet unmet medical needs.   

Michael is also Chief Executive of the Irish charity Fighting Blindness and Chair of the Medical Research Charities Group in Ireland and Debra Ireland.  A former banker Michael has been working in a voluntary and professional capacity with research charities for over 20 years, and was largely responsible for the establishment and development of the two charities Fighting Blindness and Debra Ireland.  He has been working with EPPOSI as a member of the Executive Committee for the last 5 years and has recently initiated a project to establish an Irish version of the European Platform, designed to bring the work of the European Platform back to Ireland.   

In addition to working with the Irish charities, Mr Griffith also works internationally both with the fighting blindness societies (Retina International) and the EB societies (Debra International) and is member of the Board of the European Genetic Alliances’ Network (EGAN)  -  www.epposi.org 

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