Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France, France
Dr Florian Lemaitre has been trained as a pharmacist and pharmacologist during its residency in Rennes and Poitiers, France. In 2009, he received his PharmD and advanced degree in hospital Pharmacy at the Rennes 1 University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Rennes.
He prepared its PhD on the pharmacological optimization of immunosuppressive therapy during his pharmacology fellowship at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and the Rennes University Hospital. Since 2016, he has been appointed Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Rennes University Hospital and is in charge of the Therapeutic Drug monitoring services for immunosuppressive drugs and antiviral drugs at the Biological Pharmacology Department. The department has been granted the national reference laboratory title for tacrolimus TDM in liver transplantation.
His main research topic is the precision medicine in transplantation and he has been authored or co-authored 120+ articles. He received 3.5 million euros as grants for conducting research projects in the field of immunosuppressive drugs and anti-infective agents.
Since 2022, he is the president of the TDM-working group of the Société Française de Pharmacologie et de Thérapeutique (SFPT), the French national learning society of pharmacology. He is also the actual secretary of the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT) and the Chair of the immunosuppressive drugs scientific committee of the IATDMCT. He is also an expert for drug-drug interactions for the French national regulatory agency (Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament (ANSM)) and the French national healthcare evaluation agency (Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS)) and has led the drug-drug interactions prevention program of the SFPT during COVID.
He has dedicated his career to drug individualization for patients’ care notably for solid organ transplant patients and patients with acute or chronic infections.