Elisabet Nielsen
Professor at Department of Pharmacy; Klinisk farmaci och farmakoterapi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 42 27
- E-mail:
- elisabet.nielsen@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Biomedicinskt Centrum BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 580
751 23 UPPSALA
Professor at Department of Pharmacy; Klinisk farmaci och farmakoterapi
- E-mail:
- elisabet.nielsen@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Biomedicinskt Centrum BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 580
751 23 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Elisabet Nielsen is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at the Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Sweden. Elisabet graduated in 1998 with a MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and in 2011 she received her PhD. Her research focus on developing, implementing and evaluating methods for individualized drug treatments in various therapeutic areas and patient populations.
Keywords
- clinical pharmacy
- therapeutic drug monitoring
- clinical research
- dose individualization
- bacterial infections
- clinical trials
- drug treatment optimization
- copd

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, p. 178-186, 2025
- DOI for Model-informed precision dosing of vancomycin in clinical practice: an intervention development study
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Part of Cytokine, 2023
- DOI for Predicting cytokine kinetics during sepsis; a modelling framework from a porcine sepsis model with live Escherichia coli
- Download full text (pdf) of Predicting cytokine kinetics during sepsis; a modelling framework from a porcine sepsis model with live Escherichia coli
Research priorities towards precision antibiotic therapy to improve patient care
Part of LANCET MICROBE, 2022
- DOI for Research priorities towards precision antibiotic therapy to improve patient care
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 400-408, 2020
Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Antibacterial Drugs
Part of Pharmacological Reviews, p. 1053-1090, 2013
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 128-136, 2007
Recent publications
Part of The Lancet - Infectious diseases, 2025
Part of BMJ Open, 2025
- DOI for Improved Medication communication and Patient involvement At Care Transitions (IMPACT-care): study protocol for a pre–post intervention trial in older hospitalised patients
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Part of Forensic Science International, 2025
- DOI for Comparison of pre-mortem and post-mortem blood concentrations of analgesic and sedative drugs in intensive care patients
- Download full text (pdf) of Comparison of pre-mortem and post-mortem blood concentrations of analgesic and sedative drugs in intensive care patients
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 876-884, 2025
- DOI for Short, extended and continuous infusion of β-lactams: predicted impact on target attainment and risk for toxicity in an ICU patient cohort
- Download full text (pdf) of Short, extended and continuous infusion of β-lactams: predicted impact on target attainment and risk for toxicity in an ICU patient cohort
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Utilizing gentamicin concentrations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in intensive care unit patients
- Download full text (pdf) of Utilizing gentamicin concentrations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in intensive care unit patients
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of BMJ Open, 2025
- DOI for Improved Medication communication and Patient involvement At Care Transitions (IMPACT-care): study protocol for a pre–post intervention trial in older hospitalised patients
- Download full text (pdf) of Improved Medication communication and Patient involvement At Care Transitions (IMPACT-care): study protocol for a pre–post intervention trial in older hospitalised patients
Part of Forensic Science International, 2025
- DOI for Comparison of pre-mortem and post-mortem blood concentrations of analgesic and sedative drugs in intensive care patients
- Download full text (pdf) of Comparison of pre-mortem and post-mortem blood concentrations of analgesic and sedative drugs in intensive care patients
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 876-884, 2025
- DOI for Short, extended and continuous infusion of β-lactams: predicted impact on target attainment and risk for toxicity in an ICU patient cohort
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Utilizing gentamicin concentrations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in intensive care unit patients
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First dose target attainment with extended infusion regimens of piperacillin and meropenem
Part of Critical Care, 2025
- DOI for First dose target attainment with extended infusion regimens of piperacillin and meropenem
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Part of JAC - Antimicrobial Resistance, 2025
- DOI for A model-based evaluation of the pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PKPD) of avibactam in combination with ceftazidime
- Download full text (pdf) of A model-based evaluation of the pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PKPD) of avibactam in combination with ceftazidime
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2025
- DOI for An integrative and translational PKPD modelling approach to explore the combined effect of polymyxin B and minocycline against Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Download full text (pdf) of An integrative and translational PKPD modelling approach to explore the combined effect of polymyxin B and minocycline against Klebsiella pneumoniae
Part of International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, p. 178-186, 2025
- DOI for Model-informed precision dosing of vancomycin in clinical practice: an intervention development study
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Plasma effects on bacterial time-kill dynamics: Insights from a PK/PD modelling analysis
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2025
- DOI for Plasma effects on bacterial time-kill dynamics: Insights from a PK/PD modelling analysis
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Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2025
- DOI for Ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI) pharmacokinetics in critically ill patients undergoing continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF)
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 3150-3159, 2024
- DOI for Model-based translation of results from in vitro to in vivo experiments for afabicin activity against Staphylococcus aureus
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Part of Health Expectations, 2024
- DOI for 'You're Just Thinking About Going Home': Exploring Person-Centred Medication Communication With Older Patients at Hospital Discharge
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Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2024
- DOI for Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modelling in sepsis: A tool to elucidate how pathophysiology affects meropenem pharmacokinetics
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2024
- DOI for Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor (BL/BLI) drug combinations: insights from a pharmacometric simulation study
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Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2024
- DOI for PK/PD modelling and simulation of longitudinal meropenem in vivo effects against Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae strains with high MICs
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Part of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, p. 556-560, 2024
- DOI for Therapeutic drug monitoring of monoclonal antibodies in chronic inflammatory diseases: A snapshot of laboratories and applications across Europe
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Part of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 2024
- DOI for Population pharmacokinetic modelling of cetirizine concentrations in human breast milk: A contribution from the ConcePTION project
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2024
- DOI for Recommended dosages of analgesic and sedative drugs in intensive care result in a low incidence of potentially toxic blood concentrations
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Quantifying combined effects of colistin and ciprofloxacin against Escherichia coli in an in silico pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model
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Part of Infectious Diseases, p. 451-459, 2024
- DOI for Estimated glomerular filtration rate as a tool for early identification of patients with insufficient exposure to beta-lactam antibiotics in intensive care units
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Part of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, p. 216-217, 2024
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2023
- DOI for Therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin and meropenem: Illustration of the impact of inaccurate information in dose administration time
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2023
- DOI for The complexities of communication at hospital discharge of older patients: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals' views
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Part of Cytokine, 2023
- DOI for Predicting cytokine kinetics during sepsis; a modelling framework from a porcine sepsis model with live Escherichia coli
- Download full text (pdf) of Predicting cytokine kinetics during sepsis; a modelling framework from a porcine sepsis model with live Escherichia coli
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2023
- DOI for Synergy of polymyxin B and minocycline against KPC-3- and OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in dynamic time-kill experiments: high agreement with in silico predictions
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Part of CPT, p. 1972-1987, 2023
- DOI for Model‐based assessment of neutrophil‐mediated phagocytosis and digestion of bacteria across in vitro and in vivo studies
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Part of British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 1575-1587, 2023
- DOI for Risk factors for and preventability of drug‐related hospital revisits in older patients: A post‐hoc analysis of a randomized clinical trial
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Population pharmacokinetics of cefotaxime in intensive care patients
Part of European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 251-258, 2022
- DOI for Population pharmacokinetics of cefotaxime in intensive care patients
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Imitation of β-lactam binding enables broad-spectrum metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors
Part of Nature Chemistry, p. 15-24, 2022
Research priorities towards precision antibiotic therapy to improve patient care
Part of LANCET MICROBE, 2022
- DOI for Research priorities towards precision antibiotic therapy to improve patient care
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Part of Respiratory Medicine, 2022
- DOI for Changes in critical inhaler technique errors in inhaled COPD treatment: A one-year follow-up study in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Changes in critical inhaler technique errors in inhaled COPD treatment: A one-year follow-up study in Sweden
Part of npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2021
- DOI for Critical inhaler technique errors in Swedish patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study analysing video-recorded demonstrations
- Download full text (pdf) of Critical inhaler technique errors in Swedish patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study analysing video-recorded demonstrations
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2021
- DOI for Effects of Hospital-Based Comprehensive Medication Reviews Including Postdischarge Follow-up on Older Patients' Use of Health Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
- Download full text (pdf) of Effects of Hospital-Based Comprehensive Medication Reviews Including Postdischarge Follow-up on Older Patients' Use of Health Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
Part of TOXICOLOGIE ANALYTIQUE ET CLINIQUE, p. 327-337, 2021
Part of Cancer Reports, 2021
- DOI for Continuous infusion of piperacillin‐tazobactam significantly improves target attainment in children with cancer and fever
- Download full text (pdf) of Continuous infusion of piperacillin‐tazobactam significantly improves target attainment in children with cancer and fever
Part of Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, p. 1021-1029, 2020
- DOI for Intervention fidelity and process outcomes of medication reviews including post-discharge follow-up in older hospitalized patients: Process evaluation of the MedBridge trial.
- Download full text (pdf) of Intervention fidelity and process outcomes of medication reviews including post-discharge follow-up in older hospitalized patients: Process evaluation of the MedBridge trial.
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2020
- DOI for Combination of polymyxin B and minocycline against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: interaction quantified by pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling from in vitro data
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Population pharmacokinetics of levodopa gel infusion in Parkinson's disease: effects of entacapone infusion and genetic polymorphism
- Download full text (pdf) of Population pharmacokinetics of levodopa gel infusion in Parkinson's disease: effects of entacapone infusion and genetic polymorphism
Part of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, p. 1214-1221, 2020
- DOI for Evaluation of polymyxin B in combination with 13 other antibiotics against carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in time-lapse microscopy and time-kill experiments
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Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2020
- DOI for Efficacy of Antibiotic Combinations against Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Automated Time-Lapse Microscopy and Static Time-Kill Experiments
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Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2020
Part of Haematologica, p. 1443-1453, 2020
- DOI for Relationship between factor VIII activity, bleeds and individual characteristics in severe hemophilia A patients
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Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2020
- DOI for Extension of Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Time-Kill Studies To Include Lipopolysaccharide/Endotoxin Release from Escherichia coli Exposed to Cefuroxime.
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 400-408, 2020
Part of Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2019
Part of PLOS ONE, 2019
- DOI for A non-linear mixed effect model for innate immune response: In vivo kinetics of endotoxin and its induction of the cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-6
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Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2019
Part of The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, p. 2451-2460, 2019
- DOI for A Cross-Sectional Study Assessing Appropriateness Of Inhaled Corticosteroid Treatment In Primary And Secondary Care Patients With COPD In Sweden
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Bayesian Forecasting Utilizing Bleeding Information to Support Dose Individualization of Factor VIII
Part of CPT, p. 894-903, 2019
- DOI for Bayesian Forecasting Utilizing Bleeding Information to Support Dose Individualization of Factor VIII
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 2984-2993, 2019
- DOI for Population pharmacokinetics of piperacillin in febrile children receiving cancer chemotherapy: the impact of body weight and target on an optimal dosing regimen
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Part of British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 1326-1336, 2019
Part of British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 490-500, 2018
Real life experiences of a PK dosing study: Challenges and lessons learned
Part of Haemophilia, 2018
Part of European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 1299-1307, 2018
- DOI for Population pharmacokinetics of levodopa/carbidopa microtablets in healthy subjects and Parkinson’s disease patients
- Download full text (pdf) of Population pharmacokinetics of levodopa/carbidopa microtablets in healthy subjects and Parkinson’s disease patients
Predicting mutant selection in competition experiments with ciprofloxacin-exposed Escherichia coli
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, p. 399-406, 2018
Part of Journal of clinical pharmacology, p. 1573-1581, 2017
Part of Mycoses, p. 225-225, 2017
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 3108-3116, 2017
Part of Contemporary Clinical Trials, p. 126-132, 2017
Model-based prediction of myelosuppression and recovery based on frequent neutrophil monitoring
Part of Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, p. 343-353, 2017
- DOI for Model-based prediction of myelosuppression and recovery based on frequent neutrophil monitoring
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Part of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, p. 977-988, 2017
Levodopa-entacapone-carbidopa intestinal gel in Parkinson's disease: A randomized crossover study
Part of Movement Disorders, p. 283-286, 2017
Evaluation of automated time-lapse microscopy for assessment of in vitro activity of antibiotics
Part of Journal of Microbiological Methods, p. 69-75, 2017
Part of Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, p. 69-79, 2017
- DOI for A whole-body physiologically based pharmacokinetic (WB-PBPK) model of ciprofloxacin: a step towards predicting bacterial killing at sites of infection.
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Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2017
A non-fatal intoxication and seven deaths involving the dissociative drug 3-MeO-PCP
Part of Forensic Science International, p. 76-82, 2017
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 1279-1290, 2016
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 1881-1884, 2016
Population Pharmacokinetics of Plasma-Derived Factor IX: Procedures for Dose Individualization
Part of Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, p. 724-732, 2016
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 2521-2533, 2016
Part of Pharmaceutical research, p. 1115-1125, 2016
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 4869-4877, 2016
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 3051-3060, 2015
Part of Pharmaceutical research, p. 754-767, 2014
Population pharmacokinetics of plasma-derived factor IX
Part of Haemophilia, p. 80-80, 2014
Population pharmacokinetics of daptomycin in patients affected by severe Gram-positive infections
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, p. 250-255, 2013
Part of Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, 2013
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 179-188, 2012
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 4619-4630, 2011
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 1571-1579, 2011
Part of Clinical Pharmacokinetics, p. 253-263, 2009
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 128-136, 2007
Part of Journal of Chromatography B, p. 155-162, 2000
Articles, review/survey
Part of The Lancet - Infectious diseases, 2025
From Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Model-Informed Precision Dosing for Antibiotic
Part of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, p. 928-941, 2021
Semi-mechanistic pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling of antibiotic drug combinations
Part of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, p. 697-706, 2018
Part of Intensive Care Medicine, p. 1021-1032, 2017
Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Antibacterial Drugs
Part of Pharmacological Reviews, p. 1053-1090, 2013