Filippos Kesisoglou is a Distinguished Scientist at Merck & Co., Inc., (Rahway, NJ) where he has been leading the Biopharmaceutics efforts in the Pharmaceutical Sciences department. Filippos has more than 18 years of experience in the fields of biopharmaceutics and formulation development, pharmacokinetics, PBPK and IVIVC modeling as related to clinical, drug product development and CMC regulatory applications across modalities. He has been a key contributor to multiple new drug applications. He has authored/co-authored 90 manuscripts/book chapters and more than 90 conference abstracts/podium presentations in several national/international meetings in the fields of biopharmaceutics, PBPK modeling, formulation development and drug delivery. He is currently serving as an Editor for Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and on the Editorial Advisory Board for the AAPS Journal and Pharmaceutical Research. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).