Professor Alasdair MacGowan

Consultant in Infection Research at North Bristol NHS Trust & Professor of Antimicrobial Therapeutics at the University of Bristol

Professor Alasdair MacGowan is Consultant in Infection Research at North Bristol NHS Trust and Professor of Antimicrobial Therapeutics at the University of Bristol. He has led research groups in the area of antimicrobial chemotherapy for over twenty-five years, and also provides medical input into the UK National Antibiotic Assay Reference Laboratory at Southmead Hospital. He has a research interest in antibacterial pharmacokinetics/dynamics, rapid diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance in the community and also encouraging patient and public involvement in infection research. He currently holds several Programme Grants related to antibacterial drug development. He is a former President of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), is a member of the BSAC Standing Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and is UK representative on European CDC Expert Committee EUCAST. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Royal College of Pathologists (UK) , and was a first title bearer of Fellowship of ESCMID.