Prof. Marc Brown PhD CChem FRSC

Prof. Marc Brown co-founded MedPharm in August 1999, was CSO until 2020, Board Director until 2024, and he remains Chair of MedPharm’s Scientific Advisory Committee. Marc was instrumental in establishing MedPharm’s principles and ethos, and has been a guiding force behind many of MedPharm’s scientific developments, innovations and intellectual property. To date, he has been involved in the pharmaceutical development of over 60 locally applied medicinal products that are on the market in Europe, America and Japan. Currently he acts as CSO to Mosanna Therapeutics AG supporting the development of a nasally delivered sleep apnoea medicine, advises numerous pharmaceutical companies and acts as an expert witness in patent disputes across the UK, EU and USA. Prior to establishing MedPharm he was an academic in the Pharmacy Departments at King’s College London (KCL) and the University of Hertfordshire and has visiting/honorary professorships at the Universities of Reading, Hertfordshire and King’s College London; he was awarded the status of Professor Emeritus in 2022. He has co-supervised over 50 PhD students to success, and has co-authored 2 books, over 200 publications, 30 book chapters and 26 patents describing his research interests which lie mainly in drug delivery to the skin, nail, eye and airways.