1. Current Status, Position

Prof. Dr. Birgit Koch is a Hospital Pharmacist-Clinical Pharmacologist and full Professor at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is Medical Coordinator of Research and Teaching, and supervisor of residency Clinical Pharmacology. 

2. Education

She studied Pharmacy at Utrecht University and became a licensed pharmacist in 2003. In 2009, she obtained a PhD in nephrology with her research on End-stage renal disease: sleep disturbances and the biological clock at VU Amsterdam. That same year, she also completed her residency in hospital pharmacy at Meander MC in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. In 2010, she was registered as clinical pharmacologist after completing her residency at VU Medisch Center in Amsterdam. 

3. Research Area

Her research areas are: Clinical Pharmacometrics; PK/PD and TOM; precision dosing, especially of antibiotics, psychoactive drugs and anti-cancer drugs. 

4. Conflict of interest
None