Valvanera Vozmediano Esteban, Ph.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
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About Valvanera Vozmediano Esteban
Valvanera Vozmediano, Ph.D., is a courtesy assistant professor at the Center of Pharmacometrics & System Pharmacology at University of Florida College of Pharmacy. She has been working as Principal Consultant with Dynakin’s Drug Modeling & Consulting group, and has been the Director of the Research & Development Department of the same company since 2008.
She received her B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Basque Country in Spain in 2006, and earned her Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 2011 at the same university. Her doctorate research was completed at Dynakin with the design of pioneering regulatory standard pediatric investigational plan (PIP) for a new H1 antihistamine drug applying state of the art modeling & simulation (M&S) techniques. Her research activity includes a postdoctoral internship as Marie Curie (B-MOB program) and authorship of peer-reviewed publications. Valvanera is expert in the application of allometric scaling and preclinical MBDD using population PK/PD methods specializing in translational development, mainly for the pediatric field. She has successfully completed several projects in that domain as an industrial consultant in FTIM questions, PIPs, and bridging studies, including support to successful filings for new drug applications. Valvanera is an invited professor for the Master in Drug Development of the University of Basque Country, and she is also a tutor in the International Master of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology from the Global Research in Pediatric Network of Excellence, or GRIP.
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
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PHA7979 – Advanced Research
College of Pharmacy
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PHA6935 – Selected Topics in Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
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PHA6910 – Supervised Research
College of Pharmacy
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PHA6125 – Introduction to Quantitative Pharmacology
College of Pharmacy
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PHA7980 – Research for Doctoral Dissertation
College of Pharmacy
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PHA6971 – Research for Master’s Thesis
College of Pharmacy
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PHA5132 – Prin Drug Ther Indiv
College of Pharmacy
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PHA5787C – Pt Care 5: Endo
College of Pharmacy
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PHA6946 – Practicum in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy
Research Profile
Research interests include:
Model Informed Drug Development for strategic decision making in Special Populations including pediatrics, geriatrics, different ethnicities & rare diseases
Implementation of Pharmacometric Based Regulatory Strategies
Application of Translational Research to Animal Health
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Publications
Academic Articles
Grants
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Characterizing efficacy and safety of hormonal contraceptives by combining pharmacometrics and RWE
Active
- Role:
- Project Manager
- Funding:
- BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
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Technical Expertise and Modeling Execution to Support Quantitative Decision Making on an Astellas Proprietary Compound
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- ASTELLAS PHARMA US
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Development of a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for levetiracetam to evaluate brain tissue distribution of different drug products
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- *LABORATORIOS LESVI dbaNeuraxpharm
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Novel physiologically based absorption modeling to predict the pharmacokinetic of nasal formulations in adults and pediatrics
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- SIMULATIONS PLUS
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Development of a Physiologically based Pharmacokinetic Model (PBPK) to Inform the Development of a New Nasal Formulation of Epinephrine
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- ARS PHARMACEUTICALS
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Development of a Mechanism-Based Drug Disease Trial Model for Parkinsons disease (PD)
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICAL
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Application of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models to inform dosing recommendations for hormonal contraceptives co-administered with other medications
- Role:
- Project Manager
- Funding:
- BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
Education
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Ph.D.
University of Basque Country
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B.S.
University of Basque Country
Contact Details
- Business:
- (352) 214-6721
- Business:
- valva@ufl.edu
- Business Mailing:
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5002 CASPIAN ST
SAINT CLOUD FL 34771 - Business Street:
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5002 CASPIAN ST
SAINT CLOUD FL 34771