Crizotinib (Xalkori) is an orally available potent inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases, including anaplastic lymphoma kinase and mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor. Objectives of the present study were as follows: 1) to characterize crizotinib time-dependent inhibition (TDI) potency for CYP3A in human liver microsomes (HLM) and cryopreserved human hepatocytes suspended in human plasma (HSP); 2) to characterize crizotinib enzyme induction potency on CYP3A4 in cryopreserved human hepatocytes; 3) to predict crizotinib steady-state plasma concentrations in patients (e.g., autoinhibition and autoinduction) using the mechanistic dynamic model, Simcyp population-based simulator; and 4) to predict a clinical crizotinib-midazolam interaction using the dynamic model as well as the static mathematical model. Crizotinib inactivation constant (K I ) and maximum inactivation rate constant (k inact ) for TDI were estimated as, respectively, 0.37 mM and 6.9 h 21 in HLM and 0.89 mM and 0.78 h 21 in HSP.Thus, crizotinib inactivation efficiency (k inact /K I ) was ∼20-fold lower in HSP relative to HLM. Crizotinib E max and EC 50 for CYP3A4 induction (measured as mRNA expression) were estimated as 6.4-to 29-fold and 0.47 to 3.1 mM, respectively. Based on these in vitro parameters, the predicted crizotinib steady-state area under plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) with HLM-TDI was 2.1-fold higher than the observed AUC, whereas that with HSP-TDI was consistent with the observed result (£1.1-fold). The increase in midazolam AUC with coadministration of crizotinib (21-fold) was significantly overpredicted using HLM-TDI, whereas the prediction using HSP-TDI (3.6-fold) was consistent with the observed result (3.7-fold). Collectively, the present study demonstrated the value of HSP to predict in vivo CYP3A-mediated drugdrug interaction.