Prof Sir Munir Pirmohamed is currently David Weatherall Chair of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, and a Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He also holds the only NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics in the UK. He is Director of the Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, and Director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine. He also leads the Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics (CERSI-PGx).
He was awarded a Knights Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2015. He is an inaugural NIHR Senior Investigator, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK. He is Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines. He is also a Medical Trustee for the British Heart Foundation. Past appointments include President of the British Pharmacological Society, President of the Association of Physicians, Member of the Governing Council of the MRC and Non-Executive Director NHS England.
His research focuses on personalised medicine in order to optimise drug efficacy and minimise toxicity, move discoveries from the lab to the clinic, and from clinic to application.
