MEEX Speaker
EL-KATTAN, Ayman, PhD
Executive Director and DMPK LEAD Head, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, IFM Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Dr. Ayman El-Kattan is Executive Director and DMPK LEAD Head at IFM Therapeutics. Previously, he was Associate Research Fellow at the Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, and Metabolism Department, Pfizer Inc. Cambridge Laboratories where he worked for 17 years. He earned his bachelor degree in pharmacy with distinction from University of Jordan and a Ph.D. in Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of South Carolina in the US. His main research interests are focused on understanding the role of transporters in influencing drug disposition and oral absorption. Also, it involves studying the utility of physiological based pharmacokinetic modeling (PBPK) tools in projecting drug disposition and drug-drug interaction liabilities in man for new molecular entities (NME). He is also an Adjunct Professor at College of Pharmacy-University of Rhode Island in Rhode Island, US where he lectures in the graduate-level pharmacokinetic courses and serves as external advisor on dissertation committees. Dr. El-Kattan is active member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and serves on the committee of the Drug Transporter community. He has been invited speaker over 50 times at national and international conferences and meetings and has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed Journals and book chapters. Dr. El-Kattan also published a book by Wiley and titled: Oral Bioavailability Assessment: Basics and Strategies for Drug Discovery and Development (Wiley Series on Pharmaceutical Science and Biotechnology: Practices, Applications and Methods).
