Mind the Implementation Gap: What If Every Older Adult Had Their Pharmacogenomic Profile on File?

28 Jan 2026
Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage
  • Presents real-world evidence and experience from Scotland to explore how pharmacogenomics can optimise prescribing in older adults. 

  • Highlights equity challenges, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy as key drivers of missed opportunities for pharmacogenomic-guided care in the NHS. 

  • Explores common barriers to PGx adoption head-on: feasibility, acceptability, and affordability — with evidence-based responses from trials, population data, and economic modelling. 

  • Asks the urgent question: If we already have the tools and evidence, what is holding back PGx implementation at scale? 

Speakers
Sandosh Padmanabhan
Sandosh Padmanabhan, Chair of Pharmacogenomics -  University of Glasgow