Hartmut Derendorf, Ph.d

Biography

 "Hartmut Derendorf has been teaching Biopharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics at the University of Florida since 1983. In 1995, he received the UF Teaching Improvement Award, and in 2008 the HHMI Distinguished Mentorship Award. He was awarded the UF Research Foundation Professorship (2002), the CVS Pharmacy Endowed Professorship (2007-2013), the International Educator of the Year Award (2004-2007) and the UF Doctoral Advisor/Mentoring Award (2009). He has supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students. Dr. Derendorf has published more than 400 scientific publications and given more than 750 presentations at national or international meetings. He has published six textbooks in English and German. He is editor or associate editor of four scientific journals and serves on the editorial board of five others. His research interests include the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of corticosteroids, analgesics, antibiotics as well as drug interactions. Derendorf has served as President of American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) in 2006/08 and President of International Society of Anti-infective Pharmacology (ISAP) in 2004-2006. He won the McKeen-Cattell Award for the best publication in J. Clin. Pharmacology (1994) and the Faculty Award of the University of Utrecht (2005). He is a Fellow of AAPS and ACCP as well as a review panel member of the NASA Human Research Program."

Research Interest

In vitro pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of the combination of avibactam and aztreonam against MDR organisms.