Research

At the clinical pharmacy laboratory, our research interests lie in the area of individualizing and optimizing drug therapy for each patient considering the safety and effectiveness of medications as well as patient characteristics.

  1. Individual drug therapy optimization based on clinical pharmacometric models.
    1. Optimal dosing for special populations: obesity, critical illness, pediatrics, burn, geriatrics, etc.
    2. Pharmacogenomics-based dosing optimization: cilostazol, tuberculosis, etc.
  2. Clinical trial design primarily based on pharmacokinetic data.
    1. Optimal dosing design for late clinical phases based on early clinical trial data.
    2. Optimal patient populations for improving clinical trial efficiency.
  3. Pharmacovigilance through healthcare big data analysis.
    1. Spontaneous adverse drug event reporting system.
    2. Common data model.
    3. Electronic medical records.
  4. Innovative pharmacy services.
    1. Delineation of innovative roles of pharmacists in various healthcare settings.
    2. Development and validation of novel multidisciplinary team including pharmacists.

Optimizing and individualizing for diverse patient populations.

Improving the efficiency of clinical trial based on pharmacokinetic data.

Promoting drug safety based on biomedical and healthcare big data.

Delineating innovative roles of pharmacists based on multi-disciplinary healthcare team services.