Pirmohamed Munir

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed (MB ChB, PhD, FRCPE, FRCP, FFPM. FRSB, FBPhS, FMedSci) is David Weatherall Chair in Medicine at the University of Liverpool, NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics, and a Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.  He is Director of the Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, Director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine, and Director of HDR North.  He is also leading a recently awarded Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics. He is an inaugural National Institute for Health and Care Research Senior Investigator, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK, and Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.  He is Chair of the Commission Human Medicines, and a medical trustee for the British Heart Foundation.  He was President of British Pharmacological Society from January 2020-December 2021, and President of the Association of Physicians in 2023. He was awarded a Knights Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2015. His research focuses on personalised medicine, clinical pharmacology, data science and drug safety in a variety of disease areas.  He has published over 700 papers and has an H-index of 127