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Phil Gould is a senior pharmaceutical technical professional with extensive international ‘blue chip’ industry experience of drug discovery and development. He has a background in pharmaceutical development, pharmaceutical technology, formulations design and solid-state pharmaceutics (salts, hydrates, polymorphs, pseudopolymorphs, co-crystals etc.), based on an in depth understanding of physical chemistry, pharmaceutics, bio-pharmaceutics and drug design.

Phil was educated with an honours degree in chemistry, a PhD in physical chemistry, and is a Chartered Chemist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Phil was the founder in 2005  of Jadara Pharma Ltd – a healthcare technical & business consultancy with international contracts in technical expert reports (drug discovery, pharmaceutical solid-state, pharmaceutics, formulation and technology), non-executive services, strategic business planning, fund raising, patent litigation, strategic product development, product commercialisation, spin out portfolio management and investor support to trade sale or IPO. 

Since 2011 Phil has mainly focused on providing pharmaceutical expert reporting for a number of clients in the US and EU, working for both innovator and generic firms.

Phil has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology, given over 40 seminars in the areas of pharmaceutical sciences, pharmaceutical technology, R&D strategy and R&D management. He has also published a book chapter in solid dosage form technology, and been an inventor on 4 pharmaceutical patents. Phil has been, and continues to be, a manuscript reviewer for major pharmaceutical scientific journals.