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SUMMARY:Cannabis Medicines - a Modern Reality - Dr Geoffrey Guy\, GW Pharm
 aceuticals 
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CONTACT:Fiona Roby
DESCRIPTION:Professor Geoffrey Guy is physician and the founder of the GW 
 Pharmaceuticals plc\, a NASDAQ quoted pharmaceutical company\, and has ser
 ved as Chairman since 1998. Professor Guy is the creator of Sativex (delta
 -9-tetracannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD)) and Epidiolex  (cannabidio
 l) and continues to lead innovation and new product discovery.  Professor 
 Guy has been actively involved in scientific innovation\, medical research
  and global drug development for his entire career since leaving clinical 
 medicine in 1981. Prior to his role at GW\, Professor Guy served as Chairm
 an and Chief Executive of Ethical Holdings plc\, a NASDAQ-quoted drug deli
 very Company (now Amarin Corporation plc\, or Amarin)\, which he founded i
 n 1985 and led to its NASDAQ listing in 1993. He also founded Phytopharm p
 lc in 1989\, of which he was Chairman until 1997\, and led to its London S
 tock Exchange listing in 1996. Professor Guy is the Chairman and Founder o
 f The Guy Foundation a charity dedicated to the research in and the advanc
 ement of knowledge of Quantum Bioenergetics.\nProfessor Guy has been the p
 hysician in charge of over 350 clinical studies including first dose in ma
 n\, pharmacokinetics\, pharmacodynamics\, dose-ranging\, controlled clinic
 al trials and large scale multi-centred studies and clinical surveys. He i
 s also an author on numerous scientific publications and has contributed t
 o a number of books. Professor Guy was appointed as Visiting Professor in 
 the School of Science and Medicine at the University of Buckingham in 2011
  and at the University of Westminster in 2016. He also received the “Del
 oitte Director of the Year Award in Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare” in 2
 011. Dr Guy holds a BSc in pharmacology from the University of London\, an
  MBBS at St Bartholomew’s Hospital\, an MRCS Eng and LRCP London\, an LM
 SSA Society of Apothecaries and a Diploma of Pharmaceutical Medicine from 
 the Royal Colleges of Physicians and has been awarded Honorary DSc from Un
 iversity of Reading 2016 for his contributions to science.\n\n\nThe talk w
 ill take the audience through the history of medicinal use\, the emergence
  of scientific discoveries and their slow and sometimes frustrated transla
 tion into prescription medicines
LOCATION:Zoom
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