Munir Pirmohamed
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed is a British clinical pharmacologist and geneticist. Since 2007 he has been the NHS Chair of
Background
He attended the former St Paul’s School and
Pirmohamed studied medicine at the University of Liverpool from 1980 to 1985.[2] He was awarded a PhD in pharmacology in 1993, and began working as a consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1996.[3] Pirmohamed gained the position of Personal Chair in
He is Director of the Centre for Drug Safety Science, Director of the Wolfson Centre of Personalised Medicine, [6] and Director of the MRC Clinical Pharmacology Training Scheme, [7] all at the University of Liverpool. In addition, he is Director of HDR North, part of HDR UK.[8]
Alongside these responsibilities, Pirmohamed is a non-executive director for NHS England/Improvement,[9] a member of the governing council of the Medical Research Council,[10] a medical trustee for the British Heart Foundation,[11] and was president of the British Pharmacological Society from January 2020 to December 2021.[12] He is president-elect of the Association of Physicians for 2022, and will become president in 2023.[13]
In 2022, he chaired a committee that produced a report, Personalised prescribing, on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the British Pharmacological Society, which advocates the implementation of pharmacogenomics into the UK NHS.[14]
Research
Awards
Pirmohamed is an inaugural
Professional memberships
- British Medical Association
- British Pharmacological Society
- Association of Physicians
- Medical Council on Alcohol
- Medical Research Society
- Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
- Academy of Medical Sciences
Funding
Pirmohamed has been awarded funding from The
, and the EU FP7 programme funds .[20]References
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- ^ "Munir PIRMOHAMED, Research and Innovation". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 4 March 2015.