University of Florida College of Pharmacy
Bassma Eltanameli, B.Pharm., M.Sc
Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
Bassma Eltanameli graduated from the Master of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology program at the University of South Florida, where she investigated the effect of quercetin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles on dry eye disease using corneal cell lines. In 2022, she joined the Department of Pharmaceutics at the Center of Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, University of Florida, as a Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Dr. Rodrigo Cristofoletti. Her research focuses on the utilization of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Simulation (PBPK) as a tool for quantitative PK estimations and predictions of drug-drug interactions by combining two or more models. She is particularly interested in applying PBPK models to allow mechanistic interpretation of drug absorption and food effects. Bassma employs PBPK modeling as a mechanistic approach to assess factors responsible for patient variability impacting the pharmacokinetics of drugs.