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Lourdes Cucurull-Sanchez, PhD MPhil (she/her/hers)

QSP Scientific Lead
Pharmetheus

Dr Lourdes Cucurull-Sanchez has 20+ years of experience within Pharma industry, 15+ in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) and 8+ in Machine Learning (ML). Lourdes has a passion for embedding innovative modelling methods into decision-making processes in drug development, to optimise the delivery of new medicines for patients. She enjoys strategic challenges, working across boundaries with multidisciplinary teams, and communicating science.

As QSP Scientific Lead, she is responsible for developing and implementing the QSP strategy in Pharmetheus AB, tailored to its clients' portfolio needs. In her prior 13-year trajectory at GSK, she was Senior Fellow, Director in Clinical Pharmacology Modelling & Simulation, and Manager in Computational Biology, leading the implementation of QSP strategies as part of the MIDD paradigm. Previously, she spent 8 years at Pfizer, initially as a ML computational chemist and later as a QSP modeler DMPK (Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics). Before that, she held a Postdoctoral Research Associate position with Unilever at the University of Cambridge (QSAR and Machine Learning, 2004) for 3 years.

She was elected member of the ISoP Board of Trustees (www.isop.org) in 2024, and Vice-Chair of the ISoP QSP SIG in 2021, serving as Chair-Elect, Chair and Past Chair in subsequent years. She is a founder and active board member of the UK QSP Network (www.qsp-uk.net), and member of ASCPT (www.ASCPT.org).

Lourdes has a PhD in Chemistry (Quantum Chemistry, 2000) by the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, and an MPhil in Chemistry (X-ray Crystallography, 1995) by The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a proud champion of the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) principles and a prolific scientific conference speaker and author (Google Scholar H-index = 19), with contributions to QSP best practices (UK QSP Network, PMID 30667172), QSP model assessment (IQ Consortium, PMID 35953664) and an industrial perspective on QSP (PMID 38443663).

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