Maria Karlgren
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Pharmacy; Molecular Pharmaceutics
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 41 49
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 76 21
- E-mail:
- maria.karlgren@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Biomedicinskt Centrum BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 580
751 23 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My research focuses on developing advanced in vitro models to study and predict ADME processes, with emphasis on permeability, active transport and metabolism. By designing physiologically relevant 2D/3D models, I aim to better replicate in vivo conditions and reduce reliance on animal-derived products. These models are used to predict interactions between drugs, excipients, formulations, and human tissues & cells, thereby improving the understanding and optimization of drug delivery strategies.
Keywords
- In vitro
- permeability
- 3R
- ADME
- drug transporters
- drug metabolizing enzymes
- DDI
- mucus barrier
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Publications
Recent publications
Animal product–free formation and cultivation of three-dimensional primary hepatocyte spheroids
Part of Drug Metabolism And Disposition, 2025
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OCT1 (SLC22A1) transporter kinetics and regulation in primary human hepatocyte 3D spheroids
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Part of ACS Nano, p. 15284-15302, 2024
- DOI for Pharmaceutical Quality by Design Approach to Develop High-Performance Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia
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Part of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, p. 388-396, 2021
- DOI for Expanding the Efflux In Vitro Assay Toolbox: A CRISPR-Cas9 Edited MDCK Cell Line with Human BCRP and Completely Lacking Canine MDR1
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Part of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, p. 1811-1823, 2021
- DOI for Integration of Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Machine Learning Visualizes Region-Specific Age-Induced and Drug-Target Metabolic Perturbations in the Brain
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Articles in journal
Animal product–free formation and cultivation of three-dimensional primary hepatocyte spheroids
Part of Drug Metabolism And Disposition, 2025
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OCT1 (SLC22A1) transporter kinetics and regulation in primary human hepatocyte 3D spheroids
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Part of ACS Nano, p. 15284-15302, 2024
- DOI for Pharmaceutical Quality by Design Approach to Develop High-Performance Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia
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Part of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, p. 388-396, 2021
- DOI for Expanding the Efflux In Vitro Assay Toolbox: A CRISPR-Cas9 Edited MDCK Cell Line with Human BCRP and Completely Lacking Canine MDR1
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Part of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, p. 1811-1823, 2021
- DOI for Integration of Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Machine Learning Visualizes Region-Specific Age-Induced and Drug-Target Metabolic Perturbations in the Brain
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Part of Pharmaceutics, 2020
- DOI for Acamprosate Is a Substrate of the Human Organic Anion Transporter (OAT) 1 without OAT3 Inhibitory Properties: Implications for Renal Acamprosate Secretion and Drug-Drug Interactions
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Part of Molecular Pharmaceutics, p. 4636-4650, 2019
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 2446-2450, 2018
Part of NeuroImage, p. 808-816, 2018
Intracellular drug bioavailability: a new predictor of system dependent drug disposition
Part of Scientific Reports, p. 1-12, 2017
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Part of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, p. 2909-2913, 2017
Part of Oncotarget, p. 35703-35723, 2016
Complete Knockout of Endogenous Mdr1 (Abcb1) in MDCK Cells by CRISPR-Cas9
Part of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, p. 1017-1021, 2016
Impact of drug transporters on intracellular unbound drug concentrations
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 147-147, 2016
Mechanistic modeling of hepatic pitavastatin disposition: a proteomics-informed bottom-up approach
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 56-57, 2016
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 96-96, 2016
Part of Drug Metabolism And Disposition, p. 505-516, 2016
Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 3305-3314, 2015
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 245-246, 2015
Part of Drug Metabolism And Disposition, p. 1210-1218, 2014
Part of Molecular Pharmaceutics, p. 4252-4262, 2013
An Integrated in Vitro Model for Simultaneous Assessment of Drug Uptake, Metabolism, and Efflux
Part of Molecular Pharmaceutics, p. 3152-3163, 2013
Part of Pharmaceutical research, p. 411-426, 2012
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4740-4763, 2012
Integrated cell models for prediction of drug transport and drug metabolism in the human hepatocyte
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 306-307, 2010
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 304-305, 2010
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 305-306, 2010
Uptake mechanism of ochratoxin A and citrinin through human liver
Part of Drug metabolism reviews (Softcover ed.), p. 315-315, 2010
Part of European Journal of Cancer, p. 705-712, 2009
Articles, review/survey
CRISPR-Cas9: A New Addition to the Drug Metabolism and Disposition Tool Box
Part of Drug Metabolism And Disposition, p. 1776-1786, 2018
Part of Human Genetics, p. 1-17, 2010
Chapters in book
How Physicochemical Properties of Drugs Affect Their Metabolism and Clearance
Part of New Horizons in Predictive Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, p. 1-26, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016
In vitro characterization of interactions with drug transporting proteins
Part of Transporters in Drug Development , p. 37-65, Springer, 2013