Professor Geoff Tucker

Geoff Tucker is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Head of the Academic Unit of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He graduated in pharmacy (1964) with a Ph.D (1967) from the University of London. He was at the Virginia Mason Research Center (Seattle) and the Anesthesia Research Center, University of Washington (1968-72) before returning to the UK in 1972. He has over 350 publications in the areas of pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, pharmacogenetics and the pharmacology of drugs used in anaesthesia (‘Highly Cited Author – Pharmacology: Institute of Scientific Information (ISI)). He was Chairman of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (1995-2002), a Council Member of the British Pharmacological Society (1987-2002), a Council Member of the Clinical Division of IUPHAR (1999-2005) and a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Harvard, Cincinnati and Otago and the US FDA . He is currently a Vice-President of FIP (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences), a Councillor of ISSX (International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics), an Expert Advisor to the Committee on Safety of Medicines (UK), a Member of the International Advisory Board of the African Institute of Biomedical Science & Technology, a Founding Member and Elder of the African Society for Drug Metabolism and Development, an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Royal College of Physicians UK and of the British Pharmacological and Toxicological Societies, and Chairman of Simcyp Ltd, a University of Sheffield spin-out company. He received the Lilly Prize of the British Pharmacological Society in 2000 for contributions to clinical pharmacology over many years, and in 2004 the New, Safer, Faster Drug Development Award from EUFEPS (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences).