Simon Gibbons FRSC, FLS

Professor Simon Gibbons FRSC FLS is Professor of Medicinal Phytochemistry and Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry at the UCL School of Pharmacy. His research interests are in the structure elucidation of novel bioactive natural products from plants and fungi, particularly on plant-derived antibacterials and natural product modulators of bacterial multidrug-efflux.

He has served on the UK Government’s Department of Health Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee (HMAC) and is the Chemistry Council member of the UK Government Home Office Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). He Chairs the ACMD’s Novel Psychoactive Substances Workgroup (NPSWG), which is evaluating the harms associated with “Legal Highs”.