astronomy

Munir Pirmohamed

Munir Pirmohamed is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Munir Pirmohamed rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

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Reference excerpt

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 He attended the former St Paul’s School and Peterborough Technical College. Pirmohamed studied medicine at the University of Liverpool from 1980 to 1985. He was awarded a PhD in pharmacology in 1993, and began working as a consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1996. Pirmohamed gained the position of Personal Chair in Clinical Pharmacology at The University of Liverpool in 2001. 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. 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, He is Director of the Centre for Drug Safety Science, Director of the Wolfson Centre of Personalised Medicine, and Director of the MRC Clinical Pharmacology Training Scheme, all at the University of Liverpool. In addition, he is Director of HDR North, part of HDR UK. Alongside these responsibilities, Pirmohamed is a non-executive director for NHS England/Improvement, a member of the governing council of the Medical Research Council, a medical trustee for the British Heart Foundation, and was president of the British Pharmacological Society from January 2020 to December 2021. He is president-elect of the Association of Physicians for 2022, and will become president in 2023. 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.

Research 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. He is included the 2021 list of highly cited researchers by Clarivate, and has been ranked number 1 expert in pharmacogenetics worldwide by Expertscape.

Awards Pirmohamed is an inaugural NIHR Senior Investigator and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. 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. and the Bionow Outstanding Contribution award for 2021. He was knighted the in Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2015 for services to Medicine.

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 UK Department of Health, NIHR, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Wolfson Foundation, and the EU FP7 programme funds .

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Munir Pirmohamed

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Munir Pirmohamed claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Munir Pirmohamed before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Munir Pirmohamed ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Munir Pirmohamed

In research: Munir Pirmohamed appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Munir Pirmohamed in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Munir Pirmohamed is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academics of the University of Liverpool, Alumni of the University of Liverpool, British pharmacologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Munir Pirmohamed outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Munir Pirmohamed in simple terms?

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.

Why does Munir Pirmohamed matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Munir Pirmohamed?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Munir Pirmohamed.