Sheila Annie Peters PhD

Dr. Sheila Annie Peters heads the Translational Quantitative Pharmacology group at Merck Darmstadt. Her areas of expertise in DMPK include Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK)-Phamacodynamics (PD) modeling, and PK/PD and drug-drug interactions. Prior to this, she worked at AstraZeneca, Molndal, where she developed a generic whole-body PBPK model in MATLAB which she used to support several drug discovery and early development projects across different R&D sites with innovative approaches to identifying potential limitations to drug disposition.

She successfully implemented Model-based drug discovery (MBDDx) strategy in Respiratory Inflammation and Autoimmunity iMed through cross-functional collaboration. She won the 2013 IMED (Innovative Medicines) Science Award at AstraZeneca for the “Design and Development of LungSim Simulation tool for Inhalation PK Modelling”. She has published several papers in high impact journals as well as a book on PBPK. As part of the IQ Consortium, she co-authored a White Paper on PBPK along with other experts in industry and continues to work with them on various topics of interest in PBPK.