Dr. Karel Allegaert is pediatrician, neonatologist, and clinical pharmacologist. Since 2013, he works as a Professor at KU Leuven, in the departments of Development and Regeneration, and Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences. He is also a Senior Consultant at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy.
Dr. Allegaert’s research focuses on perinatal, pediatric, or pregnancy and lactation related clinical pharmacology and its co-variates (maturational, non-maturational, pharmacogenetics, disease-related), with the subsequent use of in vivo datasets to develop prediction models.
The majority of his work is conducted in a collaborative (inter)national context, reflected by PhD (co)promotor activities and his contribution as a co-author to over 700 papers and his involvement is over 50 research groups.
He is an active member of multiple clinical trial advisory boards and international neonatal consortium
