AMIN ROSTAMI-HODJEGAN, PhD, FCP, FAAPS, FJSSX, FBPS
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Director of Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research (CAPKR), University of Manchester, UK & SVP of R&D, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), Certara, Princeton, USA
The Institute of Scientific Information (ISI, Clativate) listed Amin as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers (under ‘Pharmacology & Toxicology’) in 2017. Amin is also at 0.05% top rank of the Highly Cited Researchers List by Elsevier for pharmacology (2021). He has published over 300 peer reviewed highly influential scientific articles (>22,000 citations, h-index = 80).
The work of Professor Rostami covers wide areas of drug development over the last 30 years, ranging from pharmaceutics (e.g. bioavailability and bioequivalence) to clinical pharmacology (e.g. mixture pharmacology of drug/metabolites), translational and systems pharmacology (e.g. quantitative proteomics of enzymes and transporter for in vitro to in vivo (IVIVE) scaling).
Amin was co-founder of two spin-off companies from the University of Sheffield (Simcyp Limited and Diurnal PLC). As a leader in the field of physiologically-based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) and quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP), he is internationally recognized for his expertise in IVIVE to predict the behavior of drugs in human body and understanding the associated inter-individual variabilities. He was one of the founding editors of Pharmacometrics and System Pharmacology, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several other journals.
As the Senior Vice President of Research & Development (SVP) and Chief Scientific Officer at Certara, he facilitates the incorporation and integration of the latest advances in translational modelling to biosimulation platforms offered by Certara to its clients, with the aim of accelerating the development and regulatory approval of safer drug products and bringing them to the patients.