Dr Jose M Prieto-Garcia is Lecturer B in the Department of Biological and Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the UCL School of Pharmacy. His teaching duties include under and postgraduate lectures on analytical chemistry (‘Chromatography’), ‘Management of Herbal Products and Food supplements in Community Pharmacy’, ‘Medicinal Cannabis’ and ‘Drug Discovery at the Nutrition-Pharmacology interface’ and the leadership of the MSC in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry.

Dr. Prieto-Garcia's research started at elucidating the effect of anti-inflammatory medicinal plants and natural products on enzymes of the arachidonate pathway using targeted lipidomics. This state-of-the-art research was developed during his PhD (2001, Universitat de Valencia, Spain) alternating with visits to world-class centres such as the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany) and the William Harvey Institute (Queen Mary University, London, UK). After his PhD, he was immediately appointed as Young Researcher of the EU funded project 'Insect Chemical Ecology' (INCHECO) to explore the biochemical interactions between plants and insects (2001-2004, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Universita degli Studi di Pisa, Italy) gaining a wide experience in phytochemical analysis. He afterwards joined the Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy in April 2005 as a Postdoctoral Researcher on a European Union funded consortium developing standardised extracts of Cannabis for use in the treatment of migraine and rheumatoid arthritis. In 2006 he became Lecturer in Pharmacognosy of the Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy. In 2012 he became the director of the MSC in Pharmacognosy (later renamed as MSC in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry).