Senior research scientist
Certara UK (Simcyp Division), United Kingdom
Yuri Dancik joined Certara UK, Ltd (Simcyp Division) as senior research scientist in 2020. His general professional interests are uncovering fundamental aspects of molecular transport across biological membranes and applying them to drug delivery. At Certara Simcyp he is involved in several research and consultancy projects related to mechanisms of dermal and other non-oral drug absorption, in vitro – in vivo correlations and virtual bioequivalence. He leads the development of the Simcyp simulator’s mechanistic rectal absorption model (MechRAM).
Yuri obtained his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2007. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) from 2007 to 2010, he worked at Procter & Gamble R&D in Brussels from 2010 to 2014 and at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore from 2014 to 2018. Prior to joining Certara Simcyp, he was from 2018 to 2020 a LE STUDIUM Research Fellow based at the University of Tours Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Tours, France. In these various positions he led computational and experimental research projects on the skin barrier function, evaluation of reconstructed human skin and synthetic skin surrogates, and studies of novel cosmetic products.