Princeton, NJ 9/13/18—Certara, a supplier of model-informed drug development products and services, has acquired Pirana, a pharmacometrics modeling workbench. Pirana connects modeling results and provides software interfaces. Pirana was created by Ron Keizer, PhD, 11 years ago. “We are thrilled that Pirana, which has been used by our scientists for years, will now be part of the Certara technology portfolio,” commented Thomas Kerbusch, PhD, president of Certara Strategic Consulting. “We look forward to continued collaboration with Dr. Keizer to advance Pirana and nurture a connected pharmacometric environment.”

The software is freely available to academic researchers and commercial licenses are available. The purchase enhances the use of Certara’s Phoenix PK/PD (pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic) modeling and simulation platform. Six thousand researchers use Phoenix, according to Certara.