Michael J. Fossler

Michael J. Fossler is Vice-President, Quantitative Sciences, at Trevena, Inc. He received the Pharm. D. (1992) and Ph. D. (1995) degrees from the University of Maryland. From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Fossler was employed by the FDA as a clinical pharmacology reviewer in the Division of Metabolic and Endocrine Drug Products. In 1998, he was promoted to Senior Reviewer, and joined the Pharmacometrics group at FDA, where he was responsible for reviewing and performing population PK/PD analyses. He left the Agency in 2000 and joined the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Group at DuPont Pharmaceuticals, where he had major responsibility for PK/PD analyses in the cardiovascular and anti-inflammatory areas. In November, 2001, he joined GlaxoSmithKline, where he continued to work in the cardiovascular area, and eventually headed a group of nine pharmacometrics scientists. He left GSK in 2015 to assume his present role at Trevena, Inc., where he heads up clinical pharmacology, clinical operations, biostatistics, programming and data management. Dr. Fossler is a Fellow of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, a past President of the College and is an Honorary Regent. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Mercer University, and the University of North Texas, and is on the faculty of the University of California’s American Course on Drug Development and Regulatory Science.