Get to Know Hugh

Hugh McTavish is the founder and Executive Director of Jury Democracy USA and the inventor of the concept of Jury Democracy.

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Hugh is running for U.S. Senator on a platform of Jury Democracy, and on sharing the planet and the state of Minnesota and America with wild species, and on the radical idea of governing for happiness instead of maximizing GDP.

 

Hugh is a Ph.D. biochemist and a patent attorney. He has authored 18 refereed scientific journal articles and is the inventor on over 20 U.S. patents. He is also an entrepreneur and CEO of two pharmaceutical companies that he started off of his own inventions—IGF Oncology, LLC, for targeted cancer drugs and Squarex Pharmaceutical Corp. for a topical treatment that improves immune function and prevents cold sores or oral herpes virus outbreaks. 

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The cancer drug invention came as an outgrowth of his having cancer. It was an improvement on the drugs and treatment he received as a cancer patient. The cold sore treatment he invented in order to treat his own frequent cold sores and originally tested on himself. So Hugh has a history of taking personal adversity and turning it into a positive.  

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Hugh is also the author of the books COVID Lockdown Insanity: The COVID Deaths It Prevented, the Depression and Suicides It Caused, What We Should Have Done, and What It Shows We Could Do Now to Address Real Crises; Ending War in Our Lifetime: A Concrete, Realistic Plan; and Wild Plants of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Area: A Field Guide to Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers; and the forthcoming A Spiritual Seeker's Abridged Bible with the Gnostic Scriptures.