Pharmacogenetics professor

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7469 p284
15 September 2007

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Pharmacogenetics professor

Pharmacogenetics has been boosted by the award of a five-year contract to the University of Liverpool to host an NHS chair in the subject. The first NHS professor of pharmacogenetics will be clinical pharmacologist Munir Pirmohamed.

The Department of Health wants to support research into how the differing genetic make-up of people causes them to respond differently to common medicines.

NHS medical director

Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed medical director of the NHS in England. Professor Keogh, a cardiothoracic surgeon, will be responsible for leading the work of the national clinical directors.