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Dr Stuart WG Smith FLS
Founder & CEO of Developing World Health link title

Dr Stuart WG Smith is a serial entrepeneur who has worked in the healthcare sector for more than 20 years, initially graduating with a B.Sc (Hons.) degree in Biology and a PhD degree in tropical medicine (Schistosomiasis) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Stuart continued with academic research in leukaemia and auto-immune disease at the University of Newcastle Medical School.

Stuart worked in veterinary and public health research between 1986-1989, where he led a team of scientists developing new agents to treat large animal anti-parasitic medicines and novel insecticidal agents against mosquito and related insect vectors. Stuart also worked for a period in East and South Africa in anthelmintic and mosquito vector control.

Stuart has considerable international experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors where he has held senior commercial positions with Schering AG and British Biotech PLC. Stuart was International Product Manager at Schering AG between 1992 and 1994, in which role he was responsible for the international launch, commercial development and marketing of Fludara®, a major drug used in the treatment of haematological malignancies.

Stuart has been a founder or co-founder in six health care companies. In 1996 Stuart founded Darwin Medical Communications Ltd. and was Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2003. The Company was sold in 2003 to Grey Global Group Inc. (NASDAQ, GREY) where Stuart held the position as CEO of Darwin Grey.

In 2009 Stuart Founded the Scottish based charity Developing World Health which is focussed on the treatment and development of new medicines for some of the most devastating tropical diseases on Earth, affecting over 1 billion people in the developing World. He is currently a Director in 3 life sciences companies, two of which are involved in development of novel anti-cancer agents.

Stuart is currently on the Board of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), part of Imperial College London and holds a number of academic fellowships including: Fellow of the Linnaean Society, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.