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Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed is a British clinical pharmacologist and geneticist. Since 2007 he has been the NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics at the University of Liverpool.

Background

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He attended the former St Paul’s School and Peterborough Technical College.[1]

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 Clinical Pharmacology at The University of Liverpool in 2001. [3] He went on to become the NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics in 2007 and the David Weatherall Chair of Medicine at the University of Liverpool in 2013.[4] He was a member of the Commission on Human Medicines and chair of its Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group from 2005 to 2020 and was appointed chair of the commission in 2021,[5]

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

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Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacogenetics and drug safety are the main areas of Pirmohamed's research. With a particular focus on adverse drug reactions, their role in improving prescription choices and the development of genetic tests for personalised medicine. He has published over 600 articles.[15] He is included the 2021 list of highly cited researchers by Clarivate,[16] and has been ranked number 1 expert in pharmacogenetics worldwide by Expertscape.[17]

Awards

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Pirmohamed is an inaugural NIHR Senior Investigator and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[6] Pirmohamed has received the William Withering Medal from the Royal College of Physicians and the IPIT award for Public Service from the University of North Carolina in the US.[18] and the Bionow Outstanding Contribution award for 2021.[19] He was knighted the in Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2015 for services to Medicine.[6]

Professional memberships

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Funding

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Pirmohamed has been awarded funding from The UK Department of Health, NIHR, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Wolfson Foundation, and the EU FP7 programme funds .[20]

References

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  1. ^ "Knighthood for former pupil".
  2. ^ "Munir Pirmohamed". LinkedIn. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Pharmacologists in Phrame: Munir Pirmohamed". bps.ac.uk/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Munir Pirmohamed". linkedin.com. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Press release: New Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines". gov.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  6. ^ a b c "Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed". ukri.org/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Contact us". liv.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) North". hdruk.ac.uk/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast". england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Council Members". www.ukri.org/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Meet Our Board of Trustees". bhf.org.uk/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  12. ^ "University professor announced as President Elect of the British Pharmacological Society". liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Our People: Board of Trustees". aopgbi.org. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Personalised prescribing: using pharmacogenomics to improve patient outcomes". rcp.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Publons Munir Pirmohamed". publons.com/about/home/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Highly Cited researchers". clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  17. ^ "Expertise in Pharmacogenetics: Worldwide". expertscape.com/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  18. ^ "Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast". www.clahrc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  19. ^ "Life Science Shines Brightly at the Bionow Digital Awards". bionow.co.uk/. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  20. ^ "Munir PIRMOHAMED, Research and Innovation". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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