Simon Campbell

Career Campbell was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2004 to 2006. He led innovative research, discovering some of the world's best-selling prescription drugs, including sildenafil, amlodipine, and doxazosin. He was visiting lecturer at Universidade de São Paulo. and a medicinal chemist for Pfizer. Campbell was also visiting professor at University of Leeds, and served on the advisory board of University of Kent, and University of Bristol.

Awards and honours Campbell was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to chemistry, having previously been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999 and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2003.