Professor Reecha Sofat is currently a Senior Science Advisor (interim) to HDR UK. Alongside this, she is Breckenridge Chair in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Liverpool and an NIHR Research Professor. She is Associate Director at the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre which is led by Health Data Research UK and has also recently taken up Chair of the Board at the Professional Record Standards Body.
Her activities are linked to her research, the golden thread being data sciences. Her research interests are in making and using medicines better using a data science approach. In using medicines better she leverage electronic health record data linked to health outcome data to understand how and where medicines are used, including strategies to inform medicines policy decisions, cost-effectiveness as well as methods such as causal inference to determine medicines repurposing opportunities. Making medicines better is about leveraging large scale biological data such as genomics and multi-omics to understand the molecular underpinnings of complex disease better so as to begin to unmet need and use these methods to better identify drug targets or therapeutic opportunities.
