Marc Twagirumukiza
Medical Doctor at Ghent University
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Twagirumukiza is a medically trained clinical pharmacologist and physician with 12+ years of experience spanning academic research, clinical trials, and industry leadership across Europe and Africa. He combines a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology with roles at Pfizer, GSK and Janssen where he led clinical sciences, data-driven research and regulatory interactions, and more recently holds academic appointment as Visiting Professor at Ghent University while practicing in Belgium. Marc has led early-phase investigator-initiated trials, coordinated multi-country access-to-medicines research, and transitioned into strategic industry positions, demonstrating rare fluency between bedside medicine, trial design and pharma strategy. He is entrepreneurial—founding Heritage Alliance Ltd.—and contributes to open-source infrastructure maintenance work (e.g., schema.org) reflecting an attention to reproducible documentation and testing beyond traditional medical roles. Based in Ghent, his profile blends hands-on clinical practice with cross-disciplinary research, regulatory navigation, and emerging leadership in health innovation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, PhD Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics at Ghent UniversityTraining Certificate Biostatistics & Applied Informatics, Training Certificate Biostatistics & Applied Informatics at Université libre de BruxellesUniversity Diploma Epidemiology, University Diploma Epidemiology at Université de BordeauxMD Medicine, MD Medicine at School of medicine, National University of Rwanda
English, French, Dutch, african languages (swahili, kinyarwanda, etc)
Github Skills (7)
structured-data10
json-ld10
rdf10
apidoc9
api9
testing8
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
schemaorg/schemaorg
May 2014 - Nov 2015
Schema.org - schemas and supporting software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 123 comments, 9 issues in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Marc's contributions primarily involve merging updates from the upstream repository, indicating a role in maintaining the project's codebase. The user appears to be focused on merging the latest changes and ensuring the code is up-to-date. The changes include modifications to documentation files (e.g., `docs/datamodel.html`, `docs/gs.html`), test files (`tests/test_basics.py`), and API-related files (`api.py`). These changes suggest a focus on keeping the project's documentation and testing in line with the evolving schema.
json-ldjsonldschema-orgrdfschemas
twamarc/ScheMed
Jan 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 2 years 5 months
vocabularyhealthcare
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