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About janice goh

Dr. Janice Goh graduated from NUS Pharmacy and is a registered pharmacist with the Singapore Pharmacy Council. She recently completed her PhD in the lab of Professor Rada Savic at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy. She is currently a senior scientist at the Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR. Her work focuses on using quantitative systems pharmacology using translational pharmacometrics tools by capitalising on preclinical data to predict clinical outcomes prior to actual trials.

How can I use PK to help my research or clinical practice? (Part 5/5)

Thank you all for staying with me throughout this series! It has been fun sharing about my field with all of you! Over the past few weeks we have played with, and discussed the principles behind the coffee simulator, and … Continue reading

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What about variability? (Part 4/5)

Let’s talk about variability. Many of you have correctly highlighted over the past few weeks that coffee absorption can be variable due to a variety of reasons. This not only occurs with coffee but with almost all drugs that we … Continue reading

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A guide to running your own simulations (Part 3/5)

A huge aspect of building PK models is simulation, so we can test new scenarios, optimize new dose regimens, and even combine it with a pharmacodynamic (PD) model to build PK-PD models (maybe a future topic? Comment down below). You … Continue reading

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What is the coffee simulator based on? (Part 2/5)

The main backbone of the coffee simulator comes from a pharmacokinetic model detailed in this paper by KY Seng et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19125908/ Interestingly, there are a lot of papers related to caffeine out there for various purposes, such as defense … Continue reading

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Optimizing your coffee dosage – why use modeling and simulation? (Part 1/5)

Hi all, here is a series I originally posted on linkedin as a soft introduction to the wonderful world of pharmacometrics. A lot of these posts revolve around a simple coffee simulator I built for the fun of optimizing your … Continue reading

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