Catherijne Knibbe, PharmD, PhD is Professor of Individualized Drug Treatment at the Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy of the LACDR, Leiden University, and clinical pharmacologist-hospital pharmacist at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy of the St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. She also holds a guest appointment at the Erasmus MC, Sophia Childrens Hospital Rotterdam. 

Dr. Knibbe’s primary research focus is to optimize individualized drug treatment for special patient populations such as neonates and children, the elderly and morbidly obese pediatric and adult patients. To this end, she applies advanced statistical and pharmacometric approaches such as population PKPD modelling and PBPK modelling, to existing or newly derived data. To obtain these data, she has designed and conducted a large number of clinical studies not only within her own institution but also with many collaborating hospitals in Europe and the US, supported by different grant mechanisms. She has successfully supervised 23 PhD students, and currently is supervising 10 PhD students and 3 Post Docs/Assistant Professors. She is a co-author of over 250 international peer-reviewed publications and contributions to books. Catherijne is frequently invited to speak at national and international scientific meetings. In the St. Antonius Hospital, besides being member of the Daily Board, she directs the Clinical Pharmacology training program and  the Hospital Pharmacy training program. In addition she is a clinical pharmacology consultant for the departments of Intensive Care and Anesthesiology. She serves on different national and international committees including the Board of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. 

Dr. Prokopienko graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy with his PharmD and subsequently from the Univ of Pittsburgh with his PhD in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences. During his PhD, Alex was selected as a recipient of the AFPE Pre-Doctoral fellowship, NIH TL1 Post-Doctoral fellowship and NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program. After completing his PhD, he joined Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a Clinical Pharmacologist.