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As the pharmaceutical industry is a very dynamic environment, PharmaXL wants to co-evolve by giving opportunities to new, young talents with interesting, breaking ideas with a future potential.

To assure the quality of the training offered, PharmaXL cooperates with experts in the field, people with several years of experience, both from academia and industry.

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Biographies (in alphabetical order)

In this part the short biographies of persons that have already functioned or will function as a speaker for PharmaXL trainings are shown (in alphabetical order):

Avdeef A., PhD (pION Inc.)

Dr. Avdeef is co-founder of pION Inc. (USA) and Sirius Analytical Instruments Ltd. (UK). Formerly, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Syracuse University (USA). He is on the Advisory Board of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has authored about 80 technical papers in primary scientific journals and chapters in books, and has given about 300 invited speakerships. He has held various positions at pION Inc, Sirius Analytical Instruments Ltd, Orion Research, Syracuse University, University of California, and Caltech.

Adriaens E., PhD (University of Ghent)

After obtaining her PhD at the University of Ghent (Belgium), Dr. Adriaens has been working as a consultant for several major pharmaceutical companies in the preclinical as well as in the clinical department. She is now active at the University of Ghent (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences) and as a close partner of PharmaXL, she acts as a consultant in the field of statistics.

Bermejo M., Prof (University of Valencia)

Dr. Bermejo is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Valencia (Spain) since 1998. She obtained her PhD at the same university working on biophysical absorption models and their use in the study of the influence of surfactants and alcohol on intestinal absorption. She has been working on the validation of in situ and in vitro models for oral permeability predictions and their application to the biopharmaceutical development of new fluoroquinolones. Dr. Bermejo is co-author with Gordon Amidon of the English and Spanish versions of Modern Biopharmaceutics. She is member of the board of directors of the Drug Delivery Foundation, SEFIG (Spanish Society of Industrial Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics) and EUFEPS.

Curtis G., PhD (Bowman Research)

Dr. Curtis obtained his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Wales in 1966. In the period 1970 to 1993, he was the head of a research team developing models and solving problems in drug candidate selection and preclinical development. Under his supervision, this group developed ex vivo isolated perfused organs as model systems for drug develoment and strategies for extrapolation of data from animal systems to man. This led to the formation of the Organ Perfusion Unit, a commercial contract service to the pharmaceutical industry at the University of Cardiff and the subsequent formation of BioDynamics Research Ltd. After joining DMI BioSciences in 1999, he set up Bowman Research (UK) Ltd who design, conduct and manage the production of drug substances and the preclinical and clinical work required for transition from laboratory to proof of concept.

Deferme S., PhD (PharmaXL)

Dr. Deferme obtained his PhD at the University of Leuven in 2002 and is the founder of PharmaXL. He is the author of more than 30 peer reviewed articles and abstracts. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Deferme has many years of experience in the writing of manuscripts and clinical documents as well as in medical communication.

Dhoest A., PhD (LT Consult)

After obtaining her PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and postdoctoral research at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), Dr. Dhoest has been working both in-house and freelance as scientific writer for the pharmaceutical industry. She has many years of experience in writing clinical study protocols and study reports.

Petrauskas A., PhD (Pharma Algorithms)

Dr. Petrauskas gained his PhD in chemical enzymology at Moscow University in 1992. In 1993 he started Advanced Chemistry Development, a software company that develops physicochemical and spectral property predicting tools for analytical chemists. In 1998 he left ACD to start Pharma Algorithms, a new software company that develops predictive tools for building new algorithms in ADME/Tox and drug design.

Ungell A.-L., Prof (AstraZeneca, Uppsala University)

Dr. Ungell has a PhD in Zoophysiology and is an Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics at the Uppsala University. She presently holds a position as a Team Leader and Principal Scientist at DMPK & Bioanalytical Chemistry, AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Sweden. Her group consists of 12 persons working as support to preclinical, clinical and pharmaceutical projects regarding drug absorption and transporter issues. She has the responsibility to develop models to study drug absorption, screening for structure/absorption relationship using automated screen facilities and QSAR modelling, evaluate different absorption mechanisms and transporters, link in vitro animal studies to in vivo pharmacokinetics and pharmaceutical dosage form development and evaluate drug-drug interactions.

Van Deun K., PhD (University of Leuven)

After obtaining her Master of Science in Statistics in 1999, Dr Van Deun acquired a PhD in Psychology from the University of Leuven in 2005. In her PhD, she investigated and developed tools for the geometrical modeling of rank order data. During this period, she was also involved in the statistical training of master students. After her PhD, she worked as a biostatistician at SGS Mechelen. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher on advanced regression models, with the objective of modeling challenging data sets that come from the field of bio-informatics.

Vekemans L., PhD (University of Leuven)

Dr. Vekemans has been teaching at the Language Institute of the University of Leuven (Belgium) for 20 years and has specialised in biomedical English. She teaches writing and presentation courses to PhD researchers and lecturers in the biomedical field.