Professor David Webb

Biography

David is a clinical pharmacologist who has undertaken basic, translational and clinical research over the past 30 years in pursuit of developing safe and effective medicines for the treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

He holds the Christison Chair of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh, and is a consultant physician and toxicologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, running Edinburgh’s Hypertension Excellence Centre.

He is Honorary President of the European Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (EACPT), President-Elect of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), and Vice-President, Clinical Division of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR). He has held the Chair of the Scottish Medicines Consortium, Presidency of the Scottish Society of Physicians and Vice-Presidency of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.