About
Shakir holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Science degrees, both with Distinction, from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He completed his doctoral studies with the Duncan Norman Research scholarship at the University of Liverpool, where he developed physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models to study the maternal and foetal exposure to long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine during pregnancy. In his role as the modelling workpackage lead for the VirTUAL consortium, he also developed PBPK models to explore dosing strategies to overcome drug-drug interactions between rifampicin and ritonavir-boosted atazanavir in children and pregnant women.
Shakir is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, UK. Currently, he leads the modelling components within the Perinatal Pharmacology group.
His research interests are focussed on building computational models that can inform drug safety and efficacy in understudied populations like pregnancy. He is keenly interested in improving the general understanding on why some drugs are safe in pregnancy and others are not. Shakir is also interested in developing tools to improve informed drug-use during lactation and in paediatrics.