Building a Foundation for Research
Brianne Guzouskis finds regulatory role rewarding
Regulatory coordinators play a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, efficacy, and efficiency of clinical trials. For Brianne Guzouskis, MS, helping maintain this cornerstone of research is as rewarding as it is thought provoking.
“There's a lot of behind-the-scenes coordination, quality review, and documentation management that goes into every study and approval,” she says. “When regulatory runs smoothly, it makes the entire research process stronger and more efficient.”
Guzouskis has spent the past seven years working across clinical research, pharma, and public health. Before joining Northwestern, she worked in a GMP/GLP lab, at the Illinois Department of Public Health in clinical microbiology, and at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, where she supported cystic fibrosis research.
I'm proud of improving the efficiency and accuracy of submissions within my study portfolio, which has really helped keep studies on schedule and meet necessary timelines. ”
As a regulatory coordinator at NUCATS, she now manages the regulatory lifecycle for about two dozen studies at any given time.
“I navigate different IRBs by preparing and submitting new studies, amendments, continuing reviews, safety reports, and I also perform quality checks on all documents,” says Guzouskis. “The main goal of my role is to help study teams fulfill all regulatory requirements so that their research stays compliant and on track.”
Guzouskis strives to help create a smoother, compliant pathway for investigators and rstudy teams.
“I love the structure and attention to detail, and I love knowing that my work directly supports safe, high-quality research,” she says. “I'm proud of improving the efficiency and accuracy of submissions within my study portfolio, which has really helped keep studies on schedule and meet necessary timelines. The studies I take on that are very complex and require very close regulatory management are the most rewarding to me in the end.”
Having grown up in Lincoln, a small town of less than 15,000 people in central Illinois, Guzouskis always wanted to live in a big city without straying too far from home. Today she resides in Chicago with her Cavachon dog, Bruno, and her boyfriend Zaid.
Guzouskis notes that there is always so much to do in the Second City, with opportunities to experience new and exciting things every day.
“I love to read, and I love going to concerts and comedy shows. One of my more memorable experiences was talking to the hosts of one of my favorite podcasts, Bad Friends. Meeting Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee was so fun and I'll never forget that.”
