Biography

Anne-Grete Märtson is an assistant professor and principal investigator of antiviral pharmacology at Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR), Leiden University. Her research group focuses on translational antiviral pharmacology. The group conducts clinical studies, laboratory experiments and use computational methods to find best treatment regimens and translate results back to the clinical setting. Her research topics include optimizing ganciclovir therapy for cytomegalovirus (CMV), therapeutic drug monitoring of antivirals, relating antiviral drug exposure to dose-related toxicity, dosing in extremes of organ function and in special populations, delay in antiviral therapy in SARS-CoV-2.

Anne-Grete Märtson obtained her PhD degree (2021) from University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Before her PhD she worked as a clinical pharmacist at Tartu University Hospital, Estonia. Her PhD work focused on optimising anti-infective therapy for immunocomromised patients through conducting clinical studies of therapeutic drug monitoring and modelling the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of different anti-infectives (e.g., posaconazole, fluconazole, voriconazole, ganciclovir, caspofungin). From 2021-2023 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, where she gained experience in laboratory infection models to investigate the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-infectives.