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Prof Simon Gaisford

Professor Gaisford holds a Chair in Pharmaceutics and has spent the last 15 years studying probiotics. He joined UCL School of Pharmacy in 2003, having previously been a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Huddersfield. He has published 233 papers (h-index 75 with 23,000 citations), 8 book chapters and 4 books, made the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, is the Presenter of the educational YouTube channel Pharma Drama (with more than 50,000 subscribers) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.