Stuart J. Cordwell PhD

Stuart Cordwell graduated with a PhD in 1997 and was one of the authors responsible for coining the term ‘proteomics’. He has an international reputation as an innovator in this field. He is Group Leader of both the Microbial Proteomics (SMMB) and Cardiovascular Proteomics (SMS, Bosch Institute) Groups within the University. He took up his current appointment at The University of Sydney in December, 2004. He is also the Deputy Director of the University of Sydney Proteomics Facility. He was previously Director of Research and Development (2002-2004) and Senior Research Fellow (1999-2004) at the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University. He has co-supervised 7 PhD students and more than 10 Honours students and recently established the first undergraduate Proteomics course in Australia. Stuart has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals with an emphasis on the development and application of proteomics tools to solve biomedical problems. He was recently awarded the Selby Research Award for 2006. This award is provided to a young investigator in the Biochemical, Physical or Chemical Sciences at the University of Sydney. He was also Honorary Professor of Proteomics at Yonsei University, Korea (2001-2003). Stuart takes an active role in the wider scientific community – he is Secretary of the Australasian Proteomics Society (APS), a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Australasian Proteomics Computational Facility (APCF; 2006-), Chair, Education Sub-Committee APS (2004-), part of the Organizing Committee for the Lorne Proteomics Symposium