Lena Friberg is Professor of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics at the Department of Pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden. She obtained her PhD degree in 2003 and spent nearly two years as a postdoc at University of Queensland in Australia. Her research is focused on advancing pharmacometric concepts to support dosing strategies for new and available drugs. She has published >170 articles in the area and has an h-index of 52. Much of her research is focused on antibacterial treatments, e.g. improving quantitative translation of response-time profiles from preclinical (in vitro and in vivo) to patients and pharmacometric approaches to analyze data collected in clinical trials. Lena is Deputy Editor-in-chief of CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, and on the boards of PAGE, WCoP and ISAP. She has received the Georgio Segré prize for distinction in the field of PKPD, the Innovation award from ISoP and was in 2021 appointed ISoP fellow.