Senior Scientific Advisor and Head of Mechanistic Oral Absorption Modelling
Certara UK Ltd., United Kingdom
David B. Turner PhD is a Senior Scientific Advisor and Head of Mechanistic Oral Absorption Modelling at Certara UK Ltd (Simcyp Division) having joined Simcyp in 2004. He is author or co-author on 46 peer-reviewed papers. His work at Simcyp has in recent years mainly focused upon PBPK modelling of orally-delivered drug products but he has also worked on physico-chemical aspects of PBPK models including tissue distribution and a variety of QSAR models. David was the PI for a FDA grant to develop modelling tools for handling supersaturating drug products and is currently co-PI on another FDA grant to look at locally acting drugs in the GI tract. He has a Biochemistry BSc, a Computer Science MSc and a PhD in Chemoinformatics and QSAR modelling all obtained at Sheffield University, UK. Prior to joining Simcyp he worked in a Computational Chemistry Group (Synt:em SA, Nîmes, France) focused mainly upon high throughput in silico discovery and virtual screening projects.