Prof. Brendan Gilmore (RM)

BIO

Brendan graduated from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacy and registered as a pharmacist in 2000. He returned to QUB in 2004, completing a PhD in Biomedicinal Chemistry. He was appointed Lecturer in Pharmaceutics the same year and promoted to a personal chair as Professor in Pharmaceutical Microbiology in 2015.

He is an Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, University of Limerick. His research focuses on antimicrobial tolerance in biofilm-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, and novel antimicrobial technologies.

He has published extensively and has received several prestigious research awards and fellowships. Brendan is an editor of Hugo & Russell’s Pharmaceutical Microbiology (7 and 8 editions), a core textbook for undergraduate pharmacy programmes worldwide.

He is Deputy Head of the School of Pharmacy at QUB and has significant leadership and governance experience, having served as trustee, Vice President and President (2020-23) of the Society for Applied Microbiology, the UK’s oldest microbiology society.