David P Nicolau
Center for Anti-Infective Research & Development, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, USA

Dr Nicolau is Director for the Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development and Coordinator for Research in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Pharmacy, at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.

He completed a residency in hospital pharmacy at the University Hospital, Boston University Medical Center. After receiving his PharmD from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Dr Nicolau completed a residency in adult internal medicine at the university’s affiliated hospital and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Hartford Hospital.

Dr Nicolau’s research interests include clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the development of antimicrobial utilisation methodologies, focusing on animal models of infection, healthy volunteer studies and clinical studies as tools for success.

Dr Nicolau’s investigations of antibiotic activity against infection and his examinations of alternative methods in antimicrobial therapy are reported in over 300 publications, 200 abstracts and 350 local, national or international presentations.