HIV and pharmacogenomics in 2007.

Saye Khoo is Reader in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool (UK), having graduated from the University of London in 1985. He is Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, and is lead clinician for the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and the Mersey, Cheshire & North Wales HIV Managed Care Network. Khoo has also served in the BHIVA Treatment Guidelines Writing committee, PENTA Pharmacology committee, and as an editor for the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Research interests include assessment of intracellular accumulation of HIV drugs, role of drug transporters, evolution of HIV resistance within drug sanctuary sites, drug-drug interactions, therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacogenomics of HIV therapy. Similar work is also in progress with TB drugs in regard to sterilizing activity.