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Prof Peter Sadler

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Prof Peter Sadler FRS

Professor in Chemistry 



Design and chemical mechanism of action of therapeutic metal complexes, including organometallic arene anticancer complexes, photoactivated metal anticancer complexes (for photochemotherapy), metallomacrocycles as antivirals and stem-cell-mobilising agents, and metalloantibiotics.

Groups at Warwick


Affiliations

  • Fellow of the Royal Society.

Biography

Peter Sadler obtained his BA, MA and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Subsequently he was a Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and National Institute of Medical Research. From 1973-96 he was Lecturer, Reader and Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and from 1996-2007 Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, also Director of the Edinburgh Protein Interaction Centre and EastChem Cancer Research UK Cancer Medicinal Chemistry Centre. In June 2007 he took up a Chair in Chemistry at the University of Warwick as Head of Department, where he is now a Professor.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and the Royal Society of London (FRS), and an EPSRC RISE Fellow (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India, an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society, and a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.