Professor Reecha Sofat is Breckenridge chair in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Liverpool and a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) research professor. She is associate director at the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre which is led by Health Data Research UK. She has also recently taken up chair of the board at the Professional Record Standards Body. She is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Pharmacology Society.

Her activities are linked to her research, the golden thread being data sciences. Her research interests are in making and using medicines better using a data science approach. In using medicines better, she leverages electronic health record data linked to health outcome data to understand how and where medicines are used, including strategies to inform medicines policy decisions, cost-effectiveness and methods such as causal inference to understand medicines repurposing opportunities. Making medicines better is about leveraging large scale biological data such as genomics and multi-omics to understand the molecular underpinnings of complex disease better so as to begin to address unmet need and use these methods to better identify drug targets or therapeutic opportunities.