Dr. Elizabeth de Lange obtained her PhD from Leiden University in 1993, and was tenured in 2004. She is the Head of Translational Pharmacology at Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (LACDR). Her ultimate aim is to aid in the prediction of the dose-response relationship of CNS drugs in the clinical setting, on the basis of preclinical data (translational research). Her research involves the identification and characterization of the rate and extent of key factors in the dose-response relationship of mainly CNS drugs in health and CNS disorders. It involves the use of advanced preclinical research (e.g. including microdialysis, EEG monitoring, PET scanning) and advanced mathematical modelling and simulations (Systems Pharmacology approach).
She has published more than 100 papers and book chapters and She is a frequently invited lecturer. Furthermore, Dr de Lange is a member of the Editorial Board of FBCNS, co-founded and (co-) chaired several of the International Symposia on Microdialysis in Drug R&D. She has been the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 9th International Cerebrovascular Biology (CVB), Conference. Furthermore, she was the 2014 Chair of the Annual Meeting Programming Committee of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), after many other functions within this professional organization with ~10.000 members. She is honoured as AAPS Fellow since 2013. Her company In Focus provides courses, training and advice on microdialysis, pharmacokinetics, blood-brain barrier transport, and CNS target site distribution and effects, and systems pharmacology (info@infocus-ecmdelange.nl)