Individual variability in drug response: looking forward

Past President of the British Pharmaacological Society, Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, discusses pharmacogenomics / pharmacogenetics (PGx) and why it is important that it is embedded into the National Health Service (NHS). This includes safe prescribing, preventing medication errors, reducing adverse side effects to medicines, saving the NHS money, reducing medicines wastage and making healthcare more inclusive. The full 'Personalised Prescribing' report co-published by the British Pharmacological Society and the Royal College of Physicians can be found here: https://www.bps.ac.uk/about/our-campa... ---------- Recorded at Pharmacology 2022 on Tuesday 13 September 2022 ---------- Chair: Professor Mark Caulfield, Queen Mary’s University London Speaker: Professor Munir Pirmohamed, University of Liverpool