"Tuning Lipid Based Formulations to Facilitate Oral Absorption of Poorly Soluble Drugs and Biologics”

Anette Müllertz, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacy
University of Copenhagen

Anette Müllertz is a professor in the department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is head of Pioneer:FARMA, funded by the Danish Ministry of Science and Technology to establish research-based scientific services within the area of Drug Development. After receiving her Ph.D. degree in lipid nutrition at the Technical University of Denmark, she worked for Novo Nordisk A/S on the development of, e.g. structured lipids, digestive lipase, and digestion models. At the University of Copenhagen, she is head of the Rational Oral Drug Delivery Research Group, which focuses on developing predictive biopharmaceutical tools for oral drug development and lipid-based formulations. She has contributed to over 130 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and 10 book chapters. She is also a winner of the AAPS Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Award. She is a driving force in the EU sponsored Innovative Medicines Initiative Consortium Oral Biopharmaceutics Tools (OrBiTo) and is on the steering committee of two AAPS Focus Groups (FGs), The Lipid-based Drug Delivery FG and the QbD and Product Performance FG. She is on the advisory board of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the editor for the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology.