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| Professor Paul Alewood |
Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072. AustraliaPhone: 61 7 3346 2982
Fax: 61 7 3346 2090
Email : p.alewood@imb.uq.edu.au
Paul Alewood is currently Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology and the past Head of the Division of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland. He was formerly Associate Professor in the Centre for Drug Design and Development (UQ), Assistant Professor of Peptide Chemistry at Bond University and Lecturer at the Victorian College of Pharmacy.
Professor Alewood has an international reputation in the field of bioactive peptides and synthetic proteins and is the author of over 165 publications in high quality journals. He is also an inventor on 10 patents. He has been a prime mover in establishing the Melbourne-based peptide company, Auspep, and Xenome, a spin-off biopharmaceutical company from the University of Queensland. More recently, he was a foundation scientist in Betabiotics, a joint venture company between the IMB and CSIRO and the founder of Elacor, a joint venture between the University of Queensland and the Baker Heart Research Institute, Victoria.
His principal research areas are in the fields of peptide, protein and medicinal chemistry. These include the development of the chemical synthesis of proteins, and the design and synthesis of bioactive peptides, peptidomimetics and proteomics. Current research targets involve toxins, inflammatory proteins, growth factor analogues, retroviral proteases, milk proteins and ion channel inhibitors.
You can meet me at the following meetings this year -
Lorne Proteomics Meeting, Lorne, Victoria February 5 - 10, 2009
American Peptide Society Meeting - Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 6 -14, 2009
Joint AIMECS, Biomolecular and Aust-Japan meeting Cairns, Australia, August 23 -27, 2009
Chemical Protein Synthesis Meeting, Bavaria, Germany, September 20 -23, 2009
Modern Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis and Its Applications, Gold Coast, Australia, October 8 -10, 2009
Australian Peptide Society Meeting, South Stradbroke Is, Australia, October 11-16, 2009