Simon Gibbons is Visiting Professor of Phytochemistry at the Centre for Natural Products Discovery at Liverpool John Moores University. From 2020-2022 he was Professor of Natural Product Chemistry and Head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia. In 2022, he received the Phytochemical Society of Europe Medal for his research in Phytochemistry. He was the 2005 recipient of the

Phytochemical Society of Europe Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, generally to help them resist fungi, bacteria and plant virus infections, and also consumption by insects and other animals. The name comes . Some phytochemicals have been used as poisons ...

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Phytochemistry Phytochemistry is the study of phytochemicals, which are chemicals derived from plants. Phytochemists strive to describe the structures of the large number of secondary metabolites found in plants, the functions of these compounds in human and ...

, the 2012 Pharmanex Prize and was a Fellow of

The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health The Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH) was a controversial charity run by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) founded in 1993. The foundation promoted complementary and alternative medicine, preferring to use the term " integrated health", ...

. From 2010-2019 he was a member of the UK Home Office Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) as the Chemistry Council member and was Chairman of the ACMD's Novel Psychoactive Substances Work Group (NPSWG), which was tasked to look at the area of 'legal high' Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS). From 2010-2012 he was a member of the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory products Agency (MHRA) Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee (HMAC). He was also a member of the Governing Council of the College of Medicine and from 2010-2016 was Vice President and President of the

. His research interests are on the isolation and structure elucidation of antiinfective natural products from plants and drugs of abuse. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal ''Phytochemistry Letters'', and is currently Co-Editor of the book series Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products (“Zechmeister”; Springer Verlag, Vienna). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of ''Phytochemistry Reviews'', ''

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Phytotherapy Research ''Phytotherapy Research'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research papers, short communications, reviews, and letters on medicinal plant research. Key areas of interest are pharmacology, toxicology, and the clinica ...

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'', '' Pharmaceutica Scientia'' and ''Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine''.

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