Professor, Sir Munir Pirmohamed: Disease, drugs and genomes
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"If we had the same immune system, all of us, then we would be extinct by now"
On todays episode of The G Word, our CEO, Chris Wigley, is joined with Professor, Sir Munir Pirmohamed, a British clinical pharmacologist and geneticist. Munir is also the NHS chair of Pharmacogenomics at the University of Liverpool.
They discuss the importance of pharmaceutical drug development, understanding genome structures to better identify and predict diseases and how our lifestyle choices can lead to variation in how our genes interact with drugs. They also delve into the complexity of pharmacogenomic decisions, discussing, taking into account both clinical and genomic factors.
Professor, Sir Munir Pirmohamed: Disease, drugs and genomes