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Registration now open: Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modelling and its Applications in Maternal and Child Health

Open in-person SymposiumDate: Wednesday, 28th October 2026 Venue: Biomedical Research Institute, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Bringing together researchers, clinicians, pharmacometricians, regulators, and industry partners to advance physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling in maternal and child health across Africa. Attend a free in-person symposium exploring priorities for integrating PBPK modelling into research, clinical trials, and medicine development. Everyone with an interest in PBPK modelling and maternal and child health is welcome. Places are limited — secure your place early. For admin enquiries please contact kelly.turton@certara.com or veshni@sun.ac.za 29-30 October – Hands-on Simcyp Workshop Participate in an interactive Simcyp training workshop led by Certara. These sessions are intended for students and participants who already have access to Simcyp software. The workshop will focus on building practical PBPK modelling skills while collaboratively developing a regional capacity-building framework and roadmap for model-informed drug development across sub-Saharan Africa.

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Updates regarding the Pharmacometrics 2026 Course

We received a large volume of applications (over 700!) that required additional time to process and determine eligibility.  We have received a large number of inquiries regarding the status of applications and are doing our best to ensure that your email does not go unanswered – thank you for your patience. We will be sending outcome letters shortly. If you’re one of those who were not accepted, we strongly encourage you to benefit from the self-paced version of this course, found here. This course contains the identical curriculum as the teacher-led course. If you’d like to be informed about future iterations of this course, please consider signing up for our email list found on this page. As a result of this unanticipated interest, we will be moving the planned induction week to the week of 24 August, 2026. This also means the course schedule will be pushed out by one week to allow for the onboarding of all participants. This schedule will be shared with all accepted participants this week. Once again, thank you for your patience and understanding. -PMX Africa eLearning Team

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Building Pharmacometrics Capacity in Africa: Inside the Egypt Chapter’s First Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics Course

This July, the PMX Africa – Egypt Chapter ran its first Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics Course, delivered in partnership with the Faculty of Pharmacy at Future University in Egypt (FUE), and sponsored by DAF. What began as an idea to make quantitative pharmacology more accessible across the region turned into a two-weekend programme that reached hundreds of learners across four continents—and, by every measure we tracked, left them wanting more. A hybrid design, built for reach and depth The course was structured in two parts so it could do two things at once: reach broadly and go deep. Weekend 1 (10–11 July, online) was open to all accepted participants and covered the foundations: from the pharmacokinetics of absorption, distribution and elimination, through dosing at steady state, non-compartmental analysis and bioequivalence, pharmacodynamics, regression analysis, and a first introduction to population PK modeling. Weekend 2 (17–18 July, onsite at FUE) was an intensive, hands-on lab for a smaller hybrid track cohort, working directly in R: exploratory data analysis, NCA, population PK model building with nlmixr2, R Shiny, and interpreting model outputs. The idea was simple: give everyone a strong conceptual grounding online, then give a committed group the chance to put a keyboard under their hands and actually build models. Registration was open for just two weeks in June and drew 388 applications from across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and beyond. After review, 312 applicants were accepted, and online attendees joined live from 26 countries, with Egypt, India, Nigeria, South

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Recording now available! Uganda Chapter Webinar: Communicating Population PK/PD Modelling Results with clarity

Download the slides here Date: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (4 pm Ugandan Time) About the speaker Aida Kawuma, PhD is a founding member of the Ugandan Chapter of Pharmacometrics Africa. She is passionate about improving the contributions of African scientists in pharmacology and pharmacometrics. She is a scientist at Pumas-AI with expertise in population PK/PD modelling and model-informed drug development across a diverse range of molecules and disease areas. She is also a member of the MILK Centre modelling group at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. About this series Sharing knowledge, presenting advances and discussing best practices in pharmacometrics, featuring locally-relevant case studies in application of PBPK and pop-PK Who should attend: Anyone interested in learning how pharmacometrics helps to enable safe and effective use of medication Cost: Totally Free

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Applications CLOSED: PhM-2026 Online Pharmacometrics Course

New applications are closed – thank you for your interest Thank you for your interest in the course – we have had unprecedented interest in the course and, as a result, a significant backlog of emails and acceptance letters to process. We thank you in advance for your patience. Call for applications Pharmacometrics Africa Africa invites applications for PhM-2026, a supported online pharmacometrics course delivered through the PMXAfrica Moodle platform. About this series PhM-2026 builds on the PMXAfrica self-paced pharmacometrics course and will run as a structured 12-week cohort with induction, weekly lessons, live tutorials, discussion forums, progress tracking, and completion certificates. Who should apply: The course is intended for researchers, clinicians, pharmacists, pharmacologists, statisticians, data scientists, regulators, postgraduate students, and early-career scientists who want to build foundational understanding of pharmacometrics and its applications in clinical pharmacology, drug development, therapeutic optimisation, and regulatory science. Applicants should be able to commit approximately 4-6 hours per week for self-study, exercises, tutorials, and discussion. Course content: The course covers core principles of pharmacometrics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, biostatistics, compartmental modelling, repeated dosing, PK-PD modelling, data analysis, non-compartmental analysis, and bioequivalence. Delivery Platform and Support: The course will be delivered through PMX Africa Moodle. Accepted participants will receive Moodle access instructions before induction. Moodle support: elearning@pmxafrica.org Application Requirements: Applicants are required to have: Certification: Participants who meet the PhM-2026 completion criteria will receive a certificate of completion from Pharmacometrics Africa. Cost: Free

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Uganda Chapter Webinar: Pharmacometric modelling for mechanistic understanding of biomarker data

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2026 (2 pm Ugandan Time) About the speaker Francis Williams Ojara is a Post-doctoral pharmacometric modeler at the Infectious Diseases Institute and a lecturer of pharmacology at Gulu University. He holds a Doctorate in Natural Sciences (focusing on Pharmacometrics). His research covers modelling of pharmacokinetic-(and pharmacodynamic) data in oncology and infectious diseases, with current interests in understudied populations such as the pediatrics and pregnant mothers. He has strong interest in training and mentoring scholars into pharmacometrics and establishing potent global networks to support the growth of pharmacometrics in Uganda and Africa. About this series Sharing knowledge, presenting advances and discussing best practices in pharmacometrics, featuring locally-relevant case studies in application of PBPK and pop-PK Who should attend: Anyone interested in learning how pharmacometrics helps to enable safe and effective use of medication Cost: Totally Free

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Uganda Chapter Webinar: PK and PD of Protein Therapeutics

11 November 20252:00 PM – 3:00 PM EAT (1h) About the speaker Bernd Meibohm, PhD, FCP, FAAPS is a UTHSC Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs at the College of Pharmacy, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.  He also serves as Chair of the University of Tennessee Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and holds the Harriet S. Van Fleet Endowed Professorship in Pharmaceutics. Dr. Meibohm received his pharmacy degree and doctorate in pharmaceutics from Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina, Braunschweig, Germany. After completion of a clinical pharmacology research fellowship at the University of Florida in 1997, he joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina, and in 1999 the University of Tennessee.  Dr. Meibohm’s scientific interests include bacterial and viral infectious diseases, pediatric pharmacotherapy and the application of pharmacometric modeling and simulation techniques in preclinical and clinical drug development, with specific focus on therapeutic proteins.  His research has resulted in over 230 scientific papers and book chapters (>14,000 citations; h-index 58), three textbooks, 200 abstracts, and over 250 invited scientific presentations to national and international audiences. Dr. Meibohm is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP). He was the President of ACCP 2014-2016 and served on its Board of Regents 2008-2018. He also served as 2010 Chair for the ‘Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism’ section of AAPS, as 2016-2019 Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors of AAPS, and has recently

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Upcoming Webinar: Fundamentals of Population Pharmacokinetic (PopPK) Modelling, Part IV

About this Series The Pharmacometrics Africa (Nigeria Chapter) Webinar Series is designed to provide a structured learning experience on PBPK and Population Pharmacokinetics. The series will guide participants through fundamental concepts, model development, and real-world applications. Who Should Attend? Anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of pharmacometrics and its application in medication therapy: Academics, Researchers, Postgraduate students, and Undergraduate students. About the Speaker: Dr. Ayorinde Adehin Ayorinde is a Scientist at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Mahidol OxfordTropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok. With a background in Biochemistryand Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ayorinde’s research interests lie in pharmacokinetics and theuse of pharmacometrics tools for improved decision-making in preclinical and clinicalsettings. Before joining MORU, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Department ofPharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,Nigeria. Currently, he works in malaria and chagas disease, developing mathematical models that willexpand the understanding of infection-dynamics and optimise drug-use in these diseases.

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Upcoming Webinar: Fundamentals of Population Pharmacokinetic (PopPK) Modelling, Part III

About this Series The Pharmacometrics Africa (Nigeria Chapter) Webinar Series is designed to provide a structured learning experience on PBPK and Population Pharmacokinetics. The series will guide participants through fundamental concepts, model development, and real-world applications. Who Should Attend? Anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of pharmacometrics and its application in medication therapy: Academics, Researchers, Postgraduate students, and Undergraduate students. About the Speaker: Dr. Ayorinde Adehin Ayorinde is a Scientist at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Mahidol OxfordTropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok. With a background in Biochemistryand Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ayorinde’s research interests lie in pharmacokinetics and theuse of pharmacometrics tools for improved decision-making in preclinical and clinicalsettings. Before joining MORU, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Department ofPharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,Nigeria. Currently, he works in malaria and chagas disease, developing mathematical models that willexpand the understanding of infection-dynamics and optimise drug-use in these diseases.

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Invitation: APT Program Final Presentations Webinar

On behalf of Pharmacometrics Africa and our partners, we invite you to join the final presentations of the 2025 Applied Pharmacometrics Training (APT) program. Over the past months, fellows from MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral backgrounds across African countries have taken part in an intensive program combining theoretical learning with hands-on research. Guided by a diverse group of partners across academia and industry, participants explored the application of pharmacometrics in research, development, and clinical contexts. Each fellow has been engaged in a team research project with one of our partners, applying advanced methodologies and working in collaboration with experienced scientists. Alongside their scientific work, participants have also developed leadership and communication skills, ensuring their findings are not only robust but also effectively shared. This webinar will present the outcomes of these projects. It is an opportunity to learn about the research conducted, hear reflections from the fellows, and engage with the broader network of collaborators who have supported the program. Date: Tuesday, 14 OctoberTime: 15:00 CEST (3h)Format: Online webinar Register Here We look forward to welcoming you to this session and sharing the closing stage of this year’s program.

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