Stephan Schmidt

Biography

Dr. Schmidt is an Associate Professor & Associate Director of the Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology as well as Associate Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics in Lake Nona (Orlando).  He received his B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany in 2003 and his license to practice as a pharmacist in Germany in 2005.  Dr. Schmidt received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida under the supervision of Dr. Hartmut Derendorf in 2008, before completing a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of Prof. Meindert Danhof in the Division of Pharmacology at the Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research in The Netherlands.  During his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Schmidt was also a member of the Dutch Top Institute Pharma PK-PD modeling platform.

Research Interest

His research focuses on the application of Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology tools to address clinically relevant research questions in the area of antimicrobial chemotherapy, pediatrics, diabetes, cardiovascular safety and post-menopausal osteoporosis.  Dr. Schmidt published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles in highly respected journals in the clinical pharmacology arenas well as 4 book chapters on the application of quantitative analysis techniques in various therapeutic areas. He is the editor of a book entitled, “Applied Pharmacometrics”, published in 2014 as part of an AAPS series on advancing Pharmaceutical Sciences.