Brian is Deputy Head of School (Programmes Innovation), and Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. A pharmacy graduate and scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, he holds a PhD in neuropharmacology, and has undertaken post-doctoral research in the University of Oxford, investigating novel treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Prof. Kirby joined the RCSI School of Pharmacy in 2003, and established the pharmacology teaching within the School. He was subsequently appointed Associate Professor in 2016. From 2011-2014, Brian was seconded to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the foundation Lead in Clinical Pharmacology in the new RCSI Medical School at Perdana University. In 2017, Brian was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at University Putra Malaysia (UPM).
Brian is a pharmacist appointee to the PSI Council.