Simon Gibbons

Simon Gibbons

Simon Gibbons is Professor of Phytochemistry at the School of Pharmacy, University of London.

He was the 2005 recipient of the Phytochemical Society of Europe - Pierre Fabre Award for Phytochemistry and was a Fellow of the The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. In 2010 he was appointed to the Home Office Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) as the Chemistry Council member and is Chairman of the ACMD's Novel Psychoactive Substances Work Group (NPSWG) which is tasked to look at the increasing area of so-called 'legal high' chemicals. He is a member of the MHRA Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee (HMAC). He is a member of the Governing Council of the College of Medicine and is Vice-President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe.

His research interests are on the isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products from plants and 'legal-high' drugs of abuse.

He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Phytochemistry Letters,[1] and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the book series Progress in the Organic Chemistry of Natural Products (“Zechmeister”; Springer Verlag, Vienna) and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Natural Product Reports, Planta Medica, Phytochemistry Reviews, Phytochemical Analysis, Phytotherapy Research,[2] Fitoterapia, Pharmaceutica Scientia and Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine.

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