Elin Svensson

Elin Svensson applies modelling to global health and particularly to tuberculosis treatment. Her work covers dose and regimen optimization for novel compounds, biomarkers of treatment response, and paediatric treatment.

Professor

Department of Pharmacy at Uppsala University

elin.svensson@uu.se

Research expertise and methodologies

Pharmacometrics, clinical pharmacology, model-informed precision dosing (MIPD), biomarkers for tuberculosis treatment response, pediatric clinical trials

Ongoing research projects

UNITE4TB (website)

I am leading the pharmacology and pharmacogenomics work package in UNITE4TB where we are developing novel regimens to treat TB with compounds from among others GSK, TB Alliance and Otsuka. Phase 2 studies PARADIGM4TB, ENABLE and SYNERGY.

PanACEA (website)

European-African clinical trials consortium optimizing dosing of novel oxazolidinons and rifampicin. Evaluation of novel culture-free biomarkers such as MBLA and LAM.

Pediatric TB-treatment (website)

Dose optimization of delamanid, bedaquiline and pretomanid through IMPAACT-lead clinical trials.

TASP and EX-DR (website)

EDCPT-funded clinical trials in design phase focused on extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

HARVEST-PK

Better treatment of TB meningitis. Characterization of drug exposure in CNS and predictors of that.

Key Publications

  1. Meya D.B., Cresswell F.V., Dai B., … Svensson E.M., … van Crevel R., Ruslami R., for the HARVEST Trial Team (2025) Trial of high-dose oral rifampin in adults with tuberculous meningitis. New England Journal of Medicine, 393:2434–2446. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2502866
  2. Wallis R.S., et al., for the PanACEA Consortium (2025) Delpazolid in combination with bedaquiline, delamanid, and moxifloxacin for pulmonary tuberculosis (PanACEA-DECODE-01): a prospective, randomised, open-label, phase 2b, dose-finding trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00289-0
  3. Sutezolid in combination with bedaquiline, delamanid, and moxifloxacin for pulmonary tuberculosis (PanACEA-SUDOCU-01): a prospective, open-label, randomised, phase 2b dose-finding trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00213-0

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