Keynote Lecture with Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed – Pharmacogenomics, clinical pharmacology and clinical implementation – progress and barriers

Speaker

• Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed David Weatherall Chair in Medicine at the University of Liverpool, Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Director of the MRC Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, Director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine, President of British Pharmacological Society
  

  Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed

  David Weatherall Chair in Medicine at the University of Liverpool, Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Director of the MRC Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, Director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine, President of British Pharmacological Society

  Country: UK

  Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed MB ChB, PhD, FRCPE, FRCP, FBPhS, FMedSci is David Weatherall Chair in Medicine at the University of Liverpool, and a Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He is Director of the MRC Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, and Director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine. He is an inaugural NIHR Senior Investigator, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK, Commissioner on Human Medicines and is a non-executive director of NHS England, and has been appointed as President of British Pharmacological Society. He was awarded a Knights Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2015. His research focuses on personalised medicine, clinical pharmacology and drug safety.