Biography

Stephan Schmidt, BPharm, PhD, FCP

Stephan Schmidt is an endowed Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the University of Florida, where he also serves as the Director for the Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, and his PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the Leiden-Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, he rejoined the University of Florida as faculty in 2012. Dr. Schmidt’s research focuses on the development and application of mechanism/physiologically-based drug-disease trial models to address clinically relevant questions in the area of antimicrobial chemotherapy, chronic progressive diseases, special patient populations, and drug-drug interactions. He published more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, 8 book chapters, and 2 textbooks, including the fifth edition of Rowland and Tozer’s Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics textbook, one of the world-wide leading textbooks in the quantitative clinical pharmacology arena. He received numerous awards including the University of Florida Excellence Award for Assistant Professors in 2013, the Tanabe Young Investigator Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) in 2016, the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Mentoring Award from UF’s College of Pharmacy in 2018, the Excellence in Academia, MIDD+ Scientific Conference Award in 2021, and the University of Florida Research Foundation Professor Award in 2023. Dr. Schmidt serves as clinical pharmacology section editor of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Scientific Advisor to the Editors of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.