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Cécile van der Heijden

With over a decade of experience in EU life-sciences regulation, Cécile advises MedTech, FemTech, BioTech, AI-enabled products and pharma clients. She builds inter-legislative strategies that align product legislation such as MDR, IVDR and the AI Act, data governance, cybersecurity, and environmental legislation into coherent regulatory architectures.

She leads complex strategic matters, integrating data-protection obligations into practical solutions for the life-sciences sector. Cécile writes and speaks internationally on AI, data protection, and emerging EU legislation shaping healthcare innovation.

She holds master’s degrees in healthcare law and in civil law, and completed the Grotius specialisation course in Healthcare Law (with honours) as well as the Data Protection Specialisation Course of the Vereniging Privacyrecht Advocaten (VPR-A) / Association of Privacy Law Attorneys. Cécile also is CIPP/E certified.

Beyond work, she values art, good books, metal music, and spending time with her husband and dog.

Areas of expertise:

• Market access of medical devices, IVDs and medicinal products
• FemTech
• Artificial intelligence
• Data protection, data governance and cybersecurity
• Healthcare legislation and collaborations with healthcare providers
• Environmental and sustainability legislation
• Clinical research with medicinal products, medical devices and human tissue
• Litigation
• Contracting
• Freedom of Information Act requests


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