Senior Research Scientist
Certara UK (Simcyp Division), United Kingdom
Udoamaka (Amaka) Ezuruike is a Senior Research Scientist in the Translational Science in DMPK team at Certara UK (Simcyp Division). She obtained a Pharmacy degree from the University of Benin in Nigeria, an MSc in Pharmacology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the School of Pharmacy, University College London for her research investigating pharmacokinetic herb-drug interactions amongst diabetic patients. She joined Simcyp in 2015 after completing her PhD and has been involved in the expansion of the capabilities of the Simcyp simulator. Her expertise is in the development and verification of special populations for PBPK modelling, including ethnic and disease populations; as well as the development of small molecule PBPK models for estimation of dosing across different populations and the prediction of clinical drug-drug interactions.