Dr. Teun van Gelder
Winner of the C.E. Pippenger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Outstanding Contributions to Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, sponsored by Siemens Healthineers.

Dr. Sophie Stocker
Winner of the Victor Armstrong Young Investigator Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievements Early in her Career, sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins..

Thanks to the members of the organizing and the scientific committees for an informative Congress. Special thanks to executive organizing committee, Dr. Milan Grundmann, Dr. Ivana Kacirova and Dr. Karel Urbanek. Their tireless efforts make the guest feel welcome. We also thank to all members of the scientific committee for preparing a diverse program. Moreover, the volunteers help our members to fulfil several organizational tasks. We also need to mention the show offered by our colleagues from industry. They update us on new instrumentation and new techniques to be used in the laboratories.

A special thanks to all attendees for contributing to the vivid atmosphere and exchange during the Congress. IATDMCT 2022 offered a scientific platform for 523 registrants (393 onsite, 130 online) from 33 countries. The program included plenary and invited lectures, 4 Plenary sessions, 21 symposia, 103 oral presentations, and 181 research posters. I hope you and your families are enjoying good health and are safe.

After the Prague Congress is: the Oslo Congress

The IATDMCT flag has been transferred to the local organizing Committee of the 21st IATDMCT Congress in Oslo, Norway, September 24-27, 2023.

Please consider participating to our next IATDMCT Congress!

The venue for the 2026 Congress was chosen and announced to members at the Annual General Assembly in the Prague Congress.

The venue for the 2026 Congress is Rennes, France!

The contest was suspended in 2022 due to the pandemic and two winners were given a free registration to the IATDMCT virtual platform this year.

• Dr. Dennis Hesselink (Netherlands)
• Dr. Nicolas Venisse (France)
• Dr. Binu Susan Mathew (India)
• Dr. Tracy Snyman (South Africa)
• Dr. Ryuji Kato (Japan)

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The 2022 IATDMCT Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held during the 20th IATDMCT Congress in Prague.

Please visit the IATDMCT website to see the presentations of all the Committees and stay informed about all IATDMCT activities. Look for a summary of the meeting that will be published in the next issue of the IATDMCT Newsletter, Compass.

Sherilyn Wong is a pharmacist and PhD Student of UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia.

Welcome to this team and thank you for your support!!

In this issue:

• Reports of the Scientific Committees
• Sharing Best Practice to Expand the Utility of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in an Oncology Setting
• Analytica Conference, Munich – Congress Report
• The JSTDM-IATDMCT Joint Symposium for TDM in Asia-Pacific Region at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

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Introducing: Eight Drugs a Week – an IATDMCT podcast! The podcast is hosted by Florian Lemaitre and Jana Stojanova, who are combing their shared love of the Beatles and Pharmacology to ‘colour’ this podcast project. Join Florian and Jana every two months to hear interviews with well-known IATDMCT experts for discussions about the latest in clinical pharmacology. Subscribe to the show on your favourite podcast platform!

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Stay ahead with the latest scientific research developments in the fields of TDM and CT!

The monthly Therapeutic Drug Monitoring column provides you with the latest posts of ahead-of-print. Bringing to you articles posted online August 26 – September 23, 2022:

ORIGINAL ARTICLES:

• Associations among plasma concentrations of edoxaban and M-4, prothrombin time, and the SLCO1B1*15 haplotype in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
  Nakagawa, Junichi; Kinjo, Takahiko; Aiuchi, Naoya; Ueno, Kayo; Tomita, Hirofumi; Niioka, Takenori.
  September 23, 2022
• Development and Validation of an Efficient and Highly Sensitive ELISA for Alemtuzumab Quantification in Human Serum and Plasma.
  Achini-Gutzwiller, Federica R.; Jol-van der Zijde, Cornelia M.; Jansen-Hoogendijk, Anja M.; Lankester, Arjan C.; Bredius, Robbert G.M.; van Tol, Maarten J.D.; Moes, Dirk Jan A. R.; Schilham, Marco W.
  September 23, 2022
• Pharmacodynamic Model-based Safety Management of Eribulin-induced Myelosuppression in Patients with Breast Cancer.
  Kasai, Hidefumi; Poppenberg, Kim Linda; Fermanelli, Valentina; Otani, Yuki; Tanigawara, Yusuke.
  September 23, 2022
• Longitudinal exposure to tacrolimus and new-onset diabetes mellitus in renal transplant patients.
  Alexandre Destere; Aurélie Premaud; Caroline Monchaud; Pierre Marquet; Jean-Baptiste, Woillard.
  September 23, 2022
• Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling for the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Everolimus in Patients who have Undergone Liver Transplant.
  Yoo, Seungji; Kim, Giseob; Kim, Soyeon; Ha, Jungeun; Cho, Beom Sik; Joo, Dong Jin; Lee, Jangik I.
  September 16, 2022
• Modeling Approach with Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Data to Describe Time Course of Clozapine Exposure and PANSS Scores.
  Park, Sang-In; Kim, Seoyoung; Kim, Min-Gul; Lim, Hyeong-Seok; Kim, Euitae.
  September 06, 2022
• Finger-prick microsampling methods can replace venepuncture for simultaneous therapeutic drug monitoring of tacrolimus, mycophenolic acid, and prednisolone concentrations in adult kidney transplant patients.
  Scuderi, Carla; Parker, Suzanne; Jacks, Margaret; John, George T.; McWhinney, Brett; Ungerer, Jacobus; Mallett, Andrew; Healy, Helen; Roberts, Jason; Staatz, Christine.
  September 06, 2022
• Predictive algorithm for thiopurine-induced hepatotoxicity in IBD patients.
  van Moorsel, Sofia AW; Deben, Debbie S; Creemers, Rob H; Winkens, Bjorn; Bus, Paul; Pierik, Marieke J; Simsek, Melek; de Boer, Nanne KH; van Bodegraven, Adriaan A; Wong, Dennis R.
  August 31, 2022
• Estimation of Mycophenolic Acid Exposure in Chinese Renal Transplant Patients by a Joint Deep Learning Model.
  Shao, Kun; Jia, Yichen; Lu, Jiaqian; Zhang, Wei; Chen, Bing; Chen, Dehua; An, Huimin; Zhou, Quan; Rong, Ruiming; Zhu, Tongyu; Zhou, Peijun.
  August 30, 2022
• New Recommendations of a Height-Based Dosing Regimen of Tobramycin for Cystic Fibrosis in Adults: A Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis.
  Koloskoff, Kevin; Thirion, Daniel J.G.; Matouk, Elias; Marsot, Amélie.
  August 26, 2022

REVIEW ARTICLES:

• TDM is Alive and Kicking!
  Lemaitre, Florian; Hesselink, Dennis A.
  September 19, 2022
• Generic medicinal products in immunosuppressive therapy – should it be a challenge for therapeutic drug monitoring?
  Arkadiusz Kocur; Kunicki, Paweł K.; Pawiński, Tomasz.
  September 19, 2022
• Optimizing Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Pregnant Women: a Critical Literature Review.
  de Lima Moreira, Fernanda; Richard de Lima Benzi, Jhohann; Pinto, Leonardo; de Lucca Thomaz, Matheus; Duarte, Geraldo; Lanchote, Vera Lucia.
  September 19, 2022

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