Sergio Erill

Sergio Erill Saéz (12 October 1938 – 29 February 2020) was a Catalonian physician, clinical pharmacologist, professor and researcher.

Biography Education and professional experience Sergi Erill was born in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. He studied at the Barcelona Lycee Francais and then at the University of Barcelona, where he graduated as a medical doctor in 1963. In 1967 he received his PhD from the University of Barcelona, for his work on antibody detection under the direction of :es:Agustín Pedro Pons and :ca:Jordi Gras i Riera. Upon his return to Barcelona, he obtained his Board Certification in Internal Medicine (1970) and Clinical Pharmacology (1983), and was an assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona Medical School (1970–1975). In 1976, he became a Professor of Pharmacology, first at the University of the Basque Country (1976–1979) and later at the University of Granada (1980–1983). Returning to Barcelona in 1983, he became the director of the Esteve Foundation and associate professor of Pharmacology at the Université de Montréal, where he taught clinical pharmacology until 1998. Another active field of research was the impact of disease on the speed of acetylation of procainamide, as a function of genetic polymorphisms in patients.

Fundación Dr. Antoni Esteve In 1982 he became the founding director of the Esteve Foundation, one of his most significant contributions. Created by the family of Dr. Antoni Esteve, the Esteve Foundation aimed at promoting the development of pharmacology as a discipline through active dissemination and scientific debate. Sergio Erill embraced this goal and adopted the motto: "not a laboratory for mixing compounds, but a laboratory for mixing scientists" to develop and grow the Foundation across his 37 year tenure as director. The many initiatives he launched as director of the Esteve Foundation can be browsed on the Foundation's website.