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Saye Khoo is a Reader in Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases.  Research interests centre on the pharmacology of HIV treatment failure. This includes the role of therapeutic drug monitoring, population pharmacokinetic modelling, investigation of drug interactions, molecular characterisation of drug metabolism and disposition pathways and the role of host genetic variability in influencing drug exposure and response. There is also a focus on HIV therapy in resource-poor settings, and the pharmacology of anti-tuberculous therapy.
 
Dr Khoo chairs the Mersey, Cheshire & N Wales HIV Managed Care Network, and is actively involved in service development through the Mersey & Cheshire Sexual Health Network, and the Regional Sexual Health Task Group for NW England. He currently serves on the British HIV Association Treatment Guidelines Committee, the joint British HIV Association/British Infection Society Opportunistic Infections Guidelines Committee, and the British Thoracic Society Guidelines Joint Tuberculosis committee advising on the prevention and management of TB in patients with renal impairment. Other recent activities are: PENTA Pharmacology Steering Group, Editor, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2003 - 2007), HEFCE Clinical Senior Lectureship Award Referees Panel.