1. Current Status, Position

Dr. Vera Deneer is currently a hospital pharmacist at University Medical Center Utrecht. She is responsible for the implementation of pharmacogenetics in daily clinical practice, drug safety and medication management. Her clinical interests are in the field of cardiovascular disease, lung disease, including lung cancer.

2. Education

She studied Pharmacy at Utrecht University in The Netherlands and became a pharmacist in 1991. She completed clinical training in hospital pharmacy in 1994, followed by training in clinical pharmacology which she finished in 1998. She received a PhD at Groningen University. Her PhD was on clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of antiarrhythmic drugs in atrial fibrillation. Currently, she is associate professor clinical pharmacology at Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht University. 

3. Research Area

Her research focuses on personalised medicine by studying the influence of biomarkers such as genetic variants, patient characteristics and clinical parameters on the effects of drugs in terms of efficacy and safety. She studies biomarker guided drug treatment strategies to optimise drug treatment of individual patients with the main focus on cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, immune mediated inflammatory diseases. Furthermore, she is involved in research on clinical reasoning, clinical decision making by pharmacists and roles of pharmacists in optimising drug treatment.

4. Conflict of interest

None