Professor Reecha Sofat is inaugural Breckenridge Chair of Clinical Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Liverpool.
Professor Sofat is a clinical pharmacologist who joins the University from UCL and UCLH Foundation Trust. Her research involves embedding research into routine clinical care with a focus on making and using medicines better. A current focus is leveraging data to understand disease and consequently, drug development and use of medicines – including genomic, multi-omic and real world data. As well as using publicly available resources, Reecha develops methods to create custom disease cohorts as well as investigating individualised treatment strategies. Reecha also chairs local and regional medicines committees, teaches pharmacology and therapeutics and delivers evidence-based medicines practice.