Doutora em Política Científica e Tecnológica pelo DPCT/UNICAMP, trabalha na Fundação Oswaldo Cruz sendo do seu quadro efetivo de servidores desde 1989,tendo exercido diversos cargos gerenciais na área de planejamento estratégico e administração pública, sendo que sua mais importante função foi a de Coordenadora de Ensino do Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos - Farmanguinhos, coordenação por ela estruturada, tendo exercido a função desde janeiro de 2004 até julho de 2007. Atualmente concluiu seu pós-doutoramento no Instituto de Economia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e está sendo disponibilizada por convênio para desenvolver projetos de pesquisa em medicamentos para doenças negligenciadas, em grupo de pesquisa coordenado pela Profa Dra Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca.
Vera Maria da Motta Vieira received her degree in Education from the Federal University of Santa Maria/State of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil (1978), Master in Public Administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation/FGV - Rio de Janeiro (1993) and PhD in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Campinas/State of São Paulo (2005). She completed three specialized courses in different Management areas: Scholar Administration (UFRJ), Human Resources Management (FGV) and Strategic Planning and Management for Health (ENSP - National School for Health Care/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation-Fiocruz). She is public employee at Fiocruz since 1989 and has held several management positions in strategic planning and health public administration. Her more recent function was to create and coordinate the Graduate Specialized Courses at the Institute of Technology in Medicines Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz, from January 2004 to July 2007. He is crowded as Management Analyst in Science and Technology at the NIT - Center for Technological Innovation/ Oswaldo Cruz Institute. Actually, she is finishing her post-doctoral program conducted by Professor Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca, PhD at the Institute of Economics/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ. Her research study is entitled "Institutions and contracts in the pharmaceutical industry: antiretroviral for Aids. Her scientific and recent production includes more than twenty papers and ten technical documents. She participated as referee in three master dissertations and one PhD thesis and co-oriented a master degree dissertation in Materials Management at the ENSP/Fiocruz.
