Jose M Prieto-Garcia

An expert in Pharmacology, Drug Discovery, and the Analysis of Medicinal Substances, with a proven track record as a qualified university teacher and Course Director of several M.Sc. programmes in Drug Discovery from natural sources. My strong research output and international footprint stems from the ability to continuously attract funding for research activities. Additionally, I am an effective coordinator and supervisor of both teaching and research activities, ensuring the highest standards of academic excellence.

• 2014
• Member of the Advisory Board on the Registration of Homeopathic Products
• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom
• ADVISORY ROLES IN NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS
• The Yeheb Project (https://www.yeheb.org/ )
• Principal Investigator, Scientific advisor
• Our vision for the Yeheb project is to improve the lives of communities in the drylands of the Horn of Africa by restoring the Yeheb plant as a reliable, drought-resistant source of food and fodder.
• Iamoe Centre (https://www.iamoe.org/ )
• Scientific advisor
• We aim to protect and preserve the ancient knowledge, traditions, and natural habitat of the Amazon by creating experiential learning opportunities for people to connect with themselves, humanity, nature, and spirit through talks, workshops, and projects in collaboration with local indigenous people
• TEACHING
• Course Director MSc in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytotherapy
• Course Director MSc in Natural Products Discovery
• TOPICS
• University College London, London, United Kingdom
• M.Pharm
• Year 1:
• M.Pharm
• PHAY0002: Chemistry of Medicines
• Lectures, Workshops and Practicals on Separation and Chromatography, 2022- Executive Editor, Journal of Natural Products Discovery Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Natural Products (specialty section of Informatics and Computational Methods).2010
• Chief Scientific and Managing Editor
• Boletín Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromaticas
• I successfully indexed this Journal in the ISI Citation Index
• Member of the Editorial Board
• Biomolecules (MDPI)

• GRANTS REVIEWER , 2023- Research and Innovation Foundation, Cyprus 2018-19 Medical Research Council, United Kingdom 2014 International Foundation for Science (IFS), Sweden 2010 Czech Science Council, Czech Republic FUNDING Ph.D. Sponsorships Attracted 1x The Bloomsbury College (in collaboration with Prof. A. Pitsillides at RVC) 2x The Commonwealth 2x CNPq-Brazilian Research Council (“Science without Borders”) 1x Ministry of Science Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1x Malaysian Ministry of Science-University Teknologi Malaysia 1x Schlumberger Foundation
• Prof. Simon
• Prof.
• Giner
• Professor of Pharmaceuical Analysis, School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, University of
• Brazil.
• M.Pharm. PHAY0006: Medicines from the Bench to the Clinic Workshops on Herbal medicines
• M.Pharm. PHAY0013-1B Advanced Cancer Therapies Lectures on Tumour related Inflammation and Cancer cell migration M.Pharm. PHAY0013-2A Drugs Discovery from Natural Sources Lectures on the professional implications for Pharmacists when advising patients on Medicinal Natural Products, Food Supplements, Homeopathic products and other Complementary and Alternative Therapies M.Sc. M.Sc. in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry PHAY0014 Medicinal Natural Products Module Coordination and Lectures Workshops on Medicinal Natural Products, Food Supplements, Homeopathic products and other Complementary and Alternative Therapies PHAY0016 Analytical Techniques in Phytochemistry Module Coordination and Lectures Workshops on Extraction, Phytochemistry, Instrumental chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy PHAY0018 Natural Products Discovery Module Coordination and Lectures, Workshops and Practicals on Scientific method, Statistics, Anticancer and Antioxidant Natural products PHAY0038 Formulation of Natural Products and Cosmeceuticals Module Co-coordination and Lectures, Workshops and Practicals on Antiageing, Antiinflammatory, Antiseptic and Antioxidant natural products of cosmetic use M.Sc. in Drug Discovery PHAY0017 Anticancer Personalised Medicine Lectures on Tumour related Inflammation and Cancer cell migration
• Herb
• interactions (5 papers) Natural products and cancer (2 papers) Developing new computational strategies for the prediction of biological properties of complex mixtures of natural products (2 papers, 1 chapter) Developing NMR-based applications for the direct quality control of herbal liquid preparations (2 papers) Anti-infective natural products research in collaboration with Prof S. Gibbons -School of Pharmacy, Univ. of London- and Dr. N. Khan -School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Univ. of Nottingham (2 papers) Ethnopharmacology (3 papers) Activation of different nuclear transcription factors by Cannabis extracts in cell cultures (Confidential project) Identification of natural compounds of ecological relevance (4 papers) Effect of ANTIOXIDANT natural products on peroxynitrite-induced processes (3 papers)