Assistant Professor Clinical Therapeutics
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Lourens Bloem holds a PhD candidate position at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, within the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research focuses on Drug Regulatory Science, especially the drug regulatory handling of uncertainties throughout the drug life cycle and their impact on downstream decision-making. For this research, collaboration is sought with the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
As of September 2020, he is also Programme Manager Drug Regulatory Science for the Utrecht Science Park, drawing on his specific research experience as well as previous 4-year work experience as a pharmacovigilance assessor at the MEB. Here, he was involved in the assessment of safety data and Risk Management Plans (RMPs) for medicines authorised on the national and European level (particularly in the field of psychiatry, neurology and the musculo-skeletal system).
Lourens obtained his PharmD in 2016 at Utrecht University. As part of his studies he has done several internships, including a placement at the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital and an 8-month research placement at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) of the University of Technology Sydney in collaboration with the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.