Stephan Schmidt is an endowed Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the University of Florida, where he also serves as the Director for the Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology. Dr. Schmidt’s research focuses on the development and application of mechanism/physiologically-based drug-disease trial models to address clinically relevant questions in the area of antimicrobial chemotherapy, chronic progressive diseases, special patient populations, and drug-drug interactions. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, 8 book chapters, and 2 textbooks. Dr. Schmidt serves as clinical pharmacology section editor of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Scientific Advisor to the Editors of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.