ABOUT US

The Center for Antimicrobial Treatment Optimization Rotterdam (CATOR) was founded in 2020 in the Erasmuc Medical Center in the Netherlands. It consist of a multidisciplinairy team of physicians, pharmacists, clinical pharmacologists, medical microbiologists, infectious disease specialists and researchers.

Our goal is optimizing the therapy with antibiotics in a world where this becomes more and more challenging, which we try to catalyze through the synergy of disciplines spanning (preclinical, fundamental) research to the physician at the bedside of the patient.

TEAM

 N.J. Verkaik MD, PhD

Medical Doctor; Infectious Diseases Specialist

 B.C.M. de Winter PharmD, PhD

Hospital Pharmacist; Assistant Professor

 S.D.T. Sassen PharmD, PhD

Pharmacometrician in the Erasmus MC

Expertise: pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling.

Involved in the development of PK/PD models for both academia and industry. Teaching and supervising PhD and master students for their modeling projects.

Goal: is to optimize and individualize treatments through the use of mathemetical models, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, to avoid toxicities, suboptimal treatments and to reduce costs.

Pharmacist; Pharmacometrician

 S. van den Berg PhD

Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

 A.E. Muller MD, PhD

Medical Doctor; Clinical Microbiologist

 B.C.P. Koch PharmD, PhD

Hospital Pharmacist; Professor Pharmacometrics

 W. van Wamel PhD

Molecular Microbiologist; Associate Professor

 H. Bax MD, PhD

Medical Doctor; Internist-Infectious Diseases Specialist

 A. Abdulla, PharmD, PhD

 E. Yusuf MD, PhD

Resarch coordinator

 E. van Kampen MSc

PROJECTS

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GNA NOW

Vancomycin