Nicola Melillo


Nicola Melillo, PhD
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Born in Lovere(BG)

Main affiliation during PhD studentship

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione

Università degli Studi di Pavia

Via Ferrata 5, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

Positions

August 2021 - Now	Pharmacometrics consultant
December 2019 - August 2021	Research associate at Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research (CAPKR), The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
2016-2019	PhD student in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Pavia.

Academic Degree

2020	PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Pavia, Italy Thesis: Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for mechanistic models in pharmacometrics.
2016	Laurea Specialistica (MS degree) in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy Thesis: Modelli meccanicistici multiscala in Systems Pharmacology: sviluppo di un modello per la descrizione della farmacocinetica dell'Atorvastatina mediante l'integrazione in modelli PBPK di reti metaboliche. Score: 110 out of 110.
2014	Laurea (BS thesis) in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy Thesis: Modelli di popolazione in ambito Bayesiano: linee guida per l'implementazione dei principali casi di studio in WinBugs. Score: 110 out of 110.

Research Interests

Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling
Pop-PK/PD models
Survival analysis
Global sensitivity analysis
Absorption models
Systems Pharmacology
Dynamical models of biological systems
Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) pharmacokinetic modelling

Methodological knowledge

Pharmacometrics
Developing mathematical models
Performing uncertainty and sensitivity analyses
Computer programming (Matlab, R, C,...)
Statistics
Data analysis / machine learning

Publications

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Last update 02-08-2021