professor, hospital pharmacist, clinical pharmacologist
Leiden Academic Ctr for Drug Research, Leiden Univ, Netherlands
Catherijne AJ Knibbe, PharmD PhD is clinical pharmacologist-hospital pharmacist in the St Antonius Hosp in Nieuwegein/Utrecht and Professor of Individualized Drug Treatment at the Cluster of Systems Bioedicine & Pharmacology of the LACDR, Leiden Univ, the Netherlands. She leads a research group in which advanced statistical techniques are used to individualize drug therapy in special patient populations such as children and neonates, pregnant women and morbidly obese children and adults. She has supervised 15 PhD theses, is currently supervising 10 PhD students and 2 Post Docs and is co-author of over 165 international peer-reviewed publications and contributions to books. She is a frequently invited speaker on national and international conferences. She combines her research group with clinical responsibilities in patient care in the Dept of Intensive Care/Anesthesiology. Dr. Knibbe is Supervisor of the Clinical Pharmacology Training Program, Co-supervisor of the Hospital Pharmacy training program in the St Antonius Hosp, Vice-chair of the Central Committee of Research Involving Human Subjects (the 'CCMO'), a board member of the Dutch Society of Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmacy, Chair of the Concilium Hosp Pharmacy of the Dutch Society of Hosp Pharmacy, member of the ZonMW committee Priority Medicines for Children/Elderly & GGG, member of the NWO/ZonMW committee Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (VIDI), external European Expert for Paediatric Medicines/European Medicines Agency and has been member of the national Committee of State ‘Doek’ involving medical-ethical aspects of (non-therapeutic) research in children.