Professor John Wade
CChem, FRACI, FRSC

John obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 1980 at Monash University. He then received a Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Cambridge, UK, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, working with RC Sheppard on modern methods of chemical peptide synthesis. In 1983 he returned to Australia to the Howard Florey Institute (now The Florey), University of Melbourne, where he has long headed the Peptide and Protein Chemistry Group. His interests are in chemical peptide synthesis of complex, functionalised peptides, including antimicrobial peptides. Professor Wade is a past NHMRC of Australia Principal Research Fellow and a Fellow of both the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Royal Society of Chemistry.