Iztok Grabnar received his Master of Pharmacy degree in 1995 and PhD in Pharmaceutical sciences from University of Ljubljana in 2000. He is affiliated with the Faculty of pharmacy of the University of Ljubljana since 1995, first as teaching assistant, since 2006 as assistant professor and since 2011 as an associate professor.
His expertise is pharmacometrics. His research is focused on development of modelling and simulation methods for biomedical systems and biostatistics and to application of these methods to studies in the fields of biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, clinical pharmacology, and pharmaceutical technology. The area of his research is absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of drugs and development of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models for analysis of preclinical and clinical studies. Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models enable prediction of therapeutic and toxic drug effects, investigation of sources of their variability and therefore represent the basis for design of individual dosage regimen and development of therapeutic strategies and drug delivery systems.
Associate professor Iztok Grabnar lectures Pharmaceutical informatics and Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics to students of Pharmacy and Biomedical informatics, Introduction to clinical pharmacokinetics, and Research design, analysis and interpretation to students of Laboratory biomedicine. At doctoral study programme in Biomedicine he coordinates the module on Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic analysis and teaches selected topics in Toxicokinetics.
Associate professor Iztok Grabnar is a member of Slovenian Pharmaceutical Society (SFD), Slovenian Society for Simulation and Modelling (SLOSIM) and Interdisciplinary research team for modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic systems. |