Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Position: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0003-4818-1560
T +43 1 40400 29810
martin.m.bauer@meduniwien.ac.at
ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; Biological Psychiatry; Blood-Brain Barrier; Blood-Retinal Barrier; Clinical Trial, Phase I; Clinical Trial, Phase II; Drug Interactions; Drug Resistance; Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe; Ethics; Organic Anion Transporters; P-Glycoprotein; Pharmacokinetics; Positron-Emission Tomography; Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features
Imaging of transporters influencing the target tissue pharmacokinetics of ABC and OATP substrates is our core expertise. Functional alteration of transporter processes such as up- or down regulation are often observed in various pathophysiological states and may contribute to pharmacoresistancy, drug-drug interactions or vulnerability towards diseases or drug side effects. Thus, the characterization of transporter function and modulation of transporter activity are another focus of our work.
Positron-emission tomography (PET) and magnete resonance iamging (MRI) are valuable tools to investigate such processes involved in the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of a pharmaceutical compound within the human organism. Based on the microdosing concept only sub pharmacological doses of a radiolabelled compound are used to investigate drug distribution and pharmacokinetics in healthy vlunteers and patients. This study setup eases first in human trials and first application of a novel radiotracer for clinical PET imaging.