Joel Tarning awarded RSTMH’s 2025 Chalmers Medal
07 Oct 2025
Professor Joel Tarning, Lead of WWARN’s Malaria Pharmacometrics Theme, has been honoured with the award of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s Chalmers Medal for his exceptional contribution to the field of clinical pharmacology of neglected tropical diseases, and in particular antimalarial therapy.
Joel, head of MORU’s Clinical Pharmacology Department, is widely recognised as the foremost expert on the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic properties of antimalarial drugs, and is also passionate about passing on his knowledge and experience and training the next generation of PK/PD scientists.
Joel received his Chalmers Medal award 25 Sept at the RSTMH’s annual meeting in London.