Prof. J. Dressman
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Germany

Position

Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Johan Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Background

Jennifer Dressman is Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She received her B. Pharm degree in Pharmacy from the Victorian College of Pharmacy, Melbourne in 1976 and her Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Kansas in the USA under the direction of Prof. Takeru Higuchi. From 1980 to 1983 she held positions as Senior Scientist at Burroughs Wellcome and Interx/Merck before joining the Pharmaceutics Faculty at the University of Michigan (USA) as an Assistant Professor. In 1989 she was promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure, at the same university and in 1994 took up her current position. She has been invited as Visiting Scientist or Professor at the NIHS in Tokyo (1987), the University of Paris XI (1992), Glaxo R&D (UK) and the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1998). Her research interests focus on predicting the in vivo performance of drugs and dosage forms after oral administration, and optimizing the performance of those dosage forms intended to enhance systemic absorption of poorly soluble drugs and those intended to deliver drug locally within the gastrointestinal tract.  Additionally, she works closely with the WHO on projects designed to improve the quality of medicines globally. Her research has been recognized by several awards, including the Ebert Prize (1987), Fellowship in the AAPS (1991), Phoenix Prize (2003), the Distinguished Scientist Award of the FIP (2008) and Best Paper in Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharm (2010). She is coauthor of more than 200 peer reviewed papers, three books and thirteen patents. She is the principal advisor of over 50 completed Doctoral Theses.

Role in PEARRL

Main Supervisor ESR 8 and ESR 13, Co-Supervisor ESR 3 and ESR 7

Key Publications

• E. Jantratid, S. Prakongpan, G. Amidon, JB Dressman Feasibility of biowaiver extension to biopharmaceutics classification system Class III drug products: Cimetidine Clin Pharmacokinet 45:385-399 (2006)
  
• Kalantzi L, Goumas K, Kalioras V, Abrahamsson B, Dressman J, Reppas C Characterization of the human upper gastrointestinal contents under conditions simulating bioavailability/bioequivalence studies. Pharm. Res 23:165-176 (2006)
• S. Willmann, W. Schmitt, J. Keldernich, JB Dressman A Physiological Model for the Estimation of the Fraction Dose Absorbed in Humans. J Med Chem 47:4022-4031 (2004)
• M. Lindenberg, J. Dressman, S. Kopp Classification of orally administered drugs on the WHO „Essential Medicines“ List according to the BCS. European J. Pharm. Biopharm. 58:265-278 (2004)
  
• M. Wunderlich, E. Kostewicz, R.Becker, U. Brauns, J.B. Dressman Transfer model for the precipitation of weak bases in the gastrointestinal tract J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 56:43-51 (2004)