Tine heads the European Translational Pharmacology department of Merck Sharp & Dohme's.  In her current position as head of TP Europe, she is responsible for the Early Stage Development portfolio within the Translational Medicine department. Over the past 15 years, she has gained strategic as well as operational experience with all regulatory and operational aspects of early drug development in different therapeutic areas. Previously, Tine worked for 3 years in the project management division of Janssen Research Foundation.  

She graduated from the University Ghent as Pharmacist, obtained a  PhD at the Heymans Institute for Clinical Pharmacology,  and a post-graduate degree in European Business Administration.   She is a member of several professional organizations including member of the clinical trial task force of pharma.be and serves as scientific expert in different government task groups on biomedical research.