Senior Lecturer, PI
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Uppsala Lan, Sweden
Irena Loryan is a senior lecturer in pharmacokinetics and an associate professor (Dec 2021-) in the Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the group leader of the translational Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics (tPKPD) group. She received her M.D. in 2001 and Ph.D. in pharmacology and biochemistry in 2007 from Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Division of Pharmacogenetics at the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Karolinska Institutet (Prof. Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg Lab) from 2008 to 2011 and at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University (Prof. Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes Lab in collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceutical, Beerse, Belgium) from 2011 to 2013. From 2013 she has been a researcher in the tPKPD group. Her current research focuses on neuropharmacokinetics, implying a mechanistic understanding of drug disposition in central and peripheral nervous systems involving passage across the barriers, distribution within the parenchyma, and elimination processes in health and disease. She is a member of the Editorial Board for "Fluids and Barriers of the CNS" and "Pharmaceutical Research." Dr. Loryan has organized and co-organized numerous national and international conferences, including the Gordon Research Seminars on “Barriers of the CNS” (2018) and the Cerebrovascular Biology meeting (2023).
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