Keynote Speakers
The World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (WCP2023) will feature a selection of guest speakers from across the world who specialise in different areas of basic and clinical and pharmacology. Find out about our keynote speakers by reading below, or view our programme to see a full list of speakers and sessions.
Watch interviews with some of the keynote speakers.
This page will continue to be updated as we confirm more keynote speakers.
Professor Katrin Amunts
Director of the Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Professor Ed Bullmore
Head of Psychiatry at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge
Professor Sir Mark Caulfield
Co-Director of the The William Harvey Research Institute, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Professor Arthur Christopoulos
Professor of Analytical Pharmacology and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University
Professor Dame Sally Davies
UK Government Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance
Professor Sir Marc Feldmann
Emeritus Professor at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Winner of the 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmeceutical Science
Professor Garret A. FitzGerald
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
Professor Kathy Giacomini
Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California
Professor David E. Gloriam
Professor in Computational Receptor Biology at the University of Copenhagen
Professor Joan Heller Brown
Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine
Professor Huang Yu
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Director of Heart and Vascular Institute (Basic Sciences) at Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Brian Kobilka
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Hélène Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Professor Sir Martin Landray
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford; Science Priority Lead for Clinical Trials at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK); Co-Chief Investigator of the RECOVERY trial
Professor John McMurray
Professor of Medical Cardiology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK and honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
Professor Christine Mummery
Chair of Developmental Biology at Leiden University Medical Centre, Guest Professor at the Technical University of Twente, Co-founder of the European Organ on Chip Society and the Human Disease Modelling Technology, President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
Professor Klaus Pantel
Chairman of the Institute of Tumour Biology at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf; Founder of the European Liquid Biopsy Society (ELBS)
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
Sir Mene Pangalos
Executive Vice-President, BioPharmaceuticals at AstraZeneca
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard
Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Oxford Children’s Hospital, Vice Master of St Cross College, University of Oxford
Professor Eran Segal
Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Michael Sofia
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Arbutus Biopharma, Inc.
Professor Sarah Tabrizi
Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease (HD) Centre, Joint Head of Department Neurodegenerative Disease at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Professor Sir Patrick Vallance
Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Head of Government Science and Engineering Profession
Sir Gregory Winter
Non-executive Director of Bicycle Therapeutics; Trustee of the Newton Trust and the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research
Professor Clifford Woolf
Director of the F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor of Neurology/Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
Professor Masashi Yanagisawa
Director and Professor of the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba
