Stan completed his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University and his master’s degree in Drug Innovation at Utrecht University. His first master’s internship at the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) focused on characterization of a proximal-tubule-on-chip cultured in serum-free cell culture medium, and evaluating its purpose for renal drug transport studies. He conducted his master’s thesis at AstraZeneca R&D in Gothenburg, Sweden. After graduating, he stayed at AstraZeneca to finish his project around developing an in vitro model for cross-species comparisons of drug-induced nephrotoxicity between rat and human proximal tubular cells.

Currently, Stan is a PhD candidate on the iDOSE project, in which he aims to develop an in vitro platform to evaluate sex differences in drug clearance by the proximal tubules. He aims to use the data generated by this in vitro platform as input for in silico models of proximal tubular drug transport.