Interview: Monique on her career
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Biography
First Woman Director of the Kew Innovation Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
April 2014, Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens, Surrey
b.1950, Pembroke, Wales
Professor Monique Simmonds was the first woman to use insect-based tests to study human diseases at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Also the founder of the Kew Innovation and Business Unit, she was their first director. There Monique dealt with intellectual property at the RBG and affected the importance of quality control in the supply chain for commercial uses and develop co-branded produces with Kew.