(Vienna, 28 April 2026) Iris Minichmayr, Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni Vienna, was awarded the Young Investigator Award by the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the 36th ESCMID Global Congress.
With more than 14,500 members, ESCMID is one of the leading professional societies in the field of infectious diseases, and its annual congress is the largest scientific conference in this area worldwide. With the prestigious Young Investigator Award, ESCMID recognises outstanding research achievements by early-career researchers and highlights the international impact of their work.
Iris Minichmayr’s research focuses on the development of population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) models and simulations to predict drug concentration-time profiles and their effects. The central goal is to optimise and individualise dosing (‚model-informed precision dosing‘), particularly for complex patient populations such as critically ill patients. Furthermore, her pharmacometric research supports drug development in different therapeutic areas (‚model-informed drug development‘), for example, through translational predictions of antibiotic and other drug effects and the efficient design of clinical trials.
About the person
Iris Minichmayr is an Assistant Professor (§99/5 tenure-track) at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni Vienna, where she heads the Clinical Pharmacometrics group. Following her PhD at the interface of pharmacometrics and clinical pharmacy at Freie Universität Berlin, she spent four years working in the Predictive Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Group and the Pharmacometrics Group at Uppsala University (Sweden), and additionally completed several international research stays, including in Australia (University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital) and Chile (Universidad de Chile).
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the ESCMID PK/PD of Anti-Infectives Study Group (EPASG), a founding member of the Precision Dosing Community of the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), Chair of the Pharmacometrics Committee of the International Society of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT), and Associate Editor of the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. In addition, she leads the YoungCCIM initiative of the Comprehensive Center for Infection Medicine at MedUni Vienna.