Simon Gibbons
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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, 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
, Fitoterapia
, Pharmaceutica Scientia and Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine.
Phytochemistry
Phytochemistry is in the strict sense of the word the study of phytochemicals. These are chemicals derived from plants. In a narrower sense the terms are often used to describe the large number of secondary metabolic compounds found in plants. Many of these are known to provide protection against...
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
The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health
The Foundation for Integrated Health was a controversial charity run by Charles, Prince of Wales and founded in 1993. The Foundation promoted alternative and complementary medicine and lobbied for its inclusion in the National Health Service...
. 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, 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
Planta Medica
Planta Medica is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering medicinal plants and bioactive natural products of plant origin....
, Phytochemistry Reviews, Phytochemical Analysis
Phytochemical Analysis
Phytochemical Analysis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1991 by John Wiley & Sons. In six issues per year, it publishes original articles on the utilization of analytical methodology in the plant sciences....
, Phytotherapy Research
Phytotherapy Research
Phytotherapy Research is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research papers, short communications, reviews, and letters on medicinal plant research...
, Fitoterapia
Fitoterapia
Fitoterapia is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering medicinal plants and bioactive natural products of plant origin....
, Pharmaceutica Scientia and Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine.