Peter Sadler PhD

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 the National Institute of Medical Research. From 1973-96 he was a 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), 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. He was awarded the Royal Society Davy Medal in 2022, for pioneering the research field of medicinal inorganic chemistry, "Metals in Medicine", and the design of new metallodrugs with novel mechanisms of action. His team was awarded a 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division Horizon Prize.