George Clarkson PhD
Medical Communications Consultant

George is a Director and founding member of Alpha-Plus. He comes with 14 years of experience in healthcare communications, both as an agency Medical Writer and as Medical Writing Consultant to the Atherothrombosis Franchise, International Marketing, Sanofi-Synthèlabo, where he was closely involved in the management and implementation of the strategic publication plan for a new antiplatelet agent.

George has worked on a wide range of project types (publication planning, preparation of posters and slides, symposium workbooks, sole-sponsor journals, literature awareness service) in a range of therapeutic areas. His core therapeutic area is cardiovascular medicine, with particular expertise in antiplatelet agents, and he also has in-depth experience in CNS (epilepsy, migraine), diabetes, gastroenterology and urology (benign prostatic hypertrophy).

George's agency experience is complemented by a strong scientific background. After completing a BSc in Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow, he took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He then went on to become a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, working for the Medical Research Council's AIDS Directed Programme. During his career in research, George authored a number of peer-reviewed publications.