Alastair Poole
Professor of Pharmacology
Alastair has spent his research career investigating the pharmacology of platelets in health and disease. His laboratory has programme grant support from the BHF to investigate how platelets may regulate tissue repair and regeneration in damaged hearts. Alastair graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Pharmacology proceeding to qualification as a veterinary surgeon. He then obtained his PhD from Cambridge in 1993, investigating platelet function. After a Wellcome Trust veterinary post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Steve Watson at Oxford, he moved to Bristol in December 1995 to establish his own laboratory. He is the recipient of the British Pharmacological Society Novartis Prize 2006, a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society and is Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology. Alastair was previously Deputy Chair of the MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, and is now a member of the British Heart Foundation Project Grants Committee. He is Faculty Research Director for the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences in Bristol, Director of the Bristol BHF 4 year PhD Programme and Deputy Director of the Bristol Heart Institute.
