Igor Locatelli was born in 1979 in Nova Gorica. In 2002, he graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana (UL FFA). He completed his postgraduate studies in Biomedicine at the University of Ljubljana in 2008, when he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic of clinical pharmacokinetics, which he conducted under the mentorship of prof. dr. Iztok Grabnar. From 2003 to 2010, he was employed as a researcher at the Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, and from 2010 as an assistant and later as a university lecturer at the Department of Social Pharmacy. Since 2023, he has been working as a university teacher at the Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics and also as Vice-Dean for Scientific Research at the UL FFA.
His research initially focused on the development of pharmacokinetic and statistical models in the field of clinical pharmacy as well as in drug development. Later, he worked in the area of evidence-based medicine on several levels related to optimizing drug therapy. For this purpose, he conducted several systematic reviews with meta-analyses, developed pharmacoeconomic models, and methods for analyzing the data from large healthcare databases within pharmacoepidemiology.
He has taught several subjects in the uniform master's study programme Pharmacy and both Laboratory Biomedicine study programs. He is currently teaching pharmaceutical and biomedical informatics, biostatistics, and pharmacokinetics, and in the past also covered pharmacoeconomics, clinical trial design, clinical pharmacy, and biopharmaceutics. |