Dr. Peter Sadler

Biography

Peter Sadler obtained a BA, MA, and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He subsequently held positions as a Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the National Institute of Medical Research. He served as a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London from 1973 to 1996. From 1996 to 2007, he was the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Edinburgh Protein Interaction Centre and EastChem Cancer Research UK Medicinal Chemistry Centre. In June 2007, he took the Chair of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, where he also serves as Head of Department. Sadler is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and received the Royal Society Davy Medal in 2022 for his pioneering research in medicinal inorganic chemistry. His research focuses on the design of therapeutic metal complexes and organometallic anticancer drugs, contributing significantly to the field of bioinorganic chemistry and the development of new metallodrugs with novel mechanisms of action. He leads studies on industrial and international collaborative projects in co-ordination chemistry and interactions with biological targets such as RNA, DNA, and proteins.

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