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Sven Deferme, PhD
founder of PharmaXL

 

 

History
PharmaXL was started in 2004 as a training center in order to fill the need for 'brain updates' in the pharmaceutical industry. After the successful organization of different courses on intestinal drug absorption, biostatistics, and medical writing, attended by many medical and pharmaceutical professionals and students, PharmaXL expanded its activities. At the end of 2005, the medical writing service was realized. Since its launch, several European pharmaceutical companies have used this writing service.

Management
PharmaXL was founded by Sven Deferme, PhD . Dr. Deferme got his pharmacy training at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His main research activities during his PhD work at the Laboratory of Pharmacotechnology and Biopharmacy (University of Leuven) consisted of the investigation of the effect of human intestinal fluids and simulated intestinal fluids on the function of P-glycoprotein, and the study of the influence of fruit and plant extracts on the absorption of P-glycoprotein substrates using in vitro, ex vivo and in situ absorption models. This work resulted in more than 30 peer reviewed publications and poster abstracts.

He has several years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry: he has worked for UCB in the PKDM department as a research scientist. At UCB, Dr. Deferme was responsible for the development and optimization of absorption and metabolism models in early drug discovery (in vitro) and acted as a study director for in-life discovery studies (in house and at different CRO companies). Before that, Dr. Deferme was active in the ADME department of Eli Lilly to set up new models and technologies to investigate ADME key issues and as a PK study director. In 2004, he launched PharmaXL.

He was also the organiser of the first meetings (2002 and 2003) of the Dutch Speaking Pharmaceutical Scientists at the Annual AAPS Meetings, and of the first AccuSampler User group meeting (2003). He is a member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Scientists (EUFEPS), The Belgian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (BGFW), the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) and Leuven.Inc. He was co-organizer of the pre-satellite meeting of the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress in 2007 and he currently is a member of the Committee on Training and Education (CTE) of EUFEPS. Since January 2010, he also takes part in the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.