Roger Jones (pharmacist)

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Sir Roger Spencer Jones OBE FLSW (born 2 July 1943) is a British researcher and manager in the pharmaceutical industry. He has chaired or been a board member of many public bodies.

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Early life and education

Roger Spencer Jones was born on 2 July 1943 and brought up in a small, predominantly Welsh speaking village in the Dee valley. He was educated at Bala Boys' Grammar School and the Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff. After his B.Pharm he completed his professional qualifications and went to Bradford Management School, where he gained his MSc. [1]

Employment

He joined the Wellcome Foundation and worked in Consumer Products Marketing before taking up a line management job in Wellcome Nigeria. He then continued in line management in a regional capacity in West Africa and the Middle East. He then became responsible for Eastern Europe and the Communist Bloc where he became versed in technology transfer. He was then appointed Marketing Planning Manager and was a member of the corporate R&D committees. He left Wellcome in 1982 to establish his own Contract Development company, Penn Pharmaceuticals Ltd, which became one of the leading international companies in this field. This he sold to the management team in 1999. [1]

He realised the importance of staff training at the leading edge of technology and became active in the [[Training and Enterprise Council]]s and was Chairman of Gwent TEC and later TEC Southeast Wales. He was also appointed to be one of the Governors of the BBC in 1996. He was appointed Chairman of the Welsh Development Agency (2002-6). [2]

Achievements

With but little access to capital funding, he recognised the need for Contract Development in the pharmaceutical industry and was instrumental in bringing seventeen molecules into clinical use on behalf of clients. His unpublished work on thalidomide and his understanding of the effects of polymorphic variation on bioavailability assisted Cellgene's development of the molecule. He was the developer of high specification activated charcoal for the treatment of acute poisoning by establishing an intestinal dialysis using the gut wall as a semipermeable membrane.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2009, and he became a "Qualified Person" under EEC regulations in 1991. He has established several successful life science companies including ZooBiotic Ltd and Phytovation Ltd.

He received an OBE in 1996, and was knighted in 2005 "for services to business and training in Wales". [3] He received an honorary DSc from the University of Wales Cardiff in 2000. [1] Sir Roger is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and in July 2010 he was appointed as its inaugural Treasurer.

Voluntary and other work

Interests

Nature conservation; the countryside; shooting and salmon fishing. Club: The Athenaeum

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Who's Who 2008, p.1238.
  2. ↑ Jones, Arwyn (14 June 2011). "Investment bid £100m waste claim". BBC News.
  3. ↑ Curtis, Polly (31 December 2004). "Tomlinson knighted in Queen's honours". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Meechan, Brian (6 December 2018). "Uni chair quits innovations firm board". BBC News.
  5. ↑ "Sir Roger Jones, Trustee". National Botanic Garden of Wales. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
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