Professor

Peter Lay

FAA

Peter Lay
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Professor Lay has gained an outstanding international recognition across a range of research areas including bioinorganic chemistry (metal-based anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs, the toxicity and efficacy of chromium carcinogens and anti-diabetic drugs, and the active sites of heme proteins) and synchrotron research. Recognition of the significance of this research is evidenced by the awards of the Rennie, Burrows and H. G. Smith medals of the RACI, and the successful floating of the company, Medical Therapies on the Australian Stock Exchange to take the metal anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs (already internationally commercialized for veterinary applications) into human clinical trials.

Fields of research

30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310101 Analytical Biochemistry
    • 310112 Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling)
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3205 MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND METABOLOMICS
    • 320503 Medical Biochemistry: Inorganic Elements and Compounds
  • 3206 MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
    • 320602 Medical Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)
  • 3211 ONCOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS
    • 321101 Cancer Cell Biology
    • 321102 Cancer Diagnosis
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3401 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
  • 3402 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340401 Biologically Active Molecules
    • 340403 Characterisation of Biological Macromolecules
    • 340404 Cheminformatics and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
    • 340406 Molecular Medicine
    • 340407 Proteins and Peptides
  • 3406 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (INCL. STRUCTURAL)
    • 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    • 340604 Electrochemistry
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES 511003 Synchrotrons

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biophysical Chemistry
  • Synchrotron Science
  • Spectroscopy
  • Drug Mechanisms
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Protein-protein Interactions
  • Trace Element Analysis
  • Drug Design
  • Drug Discovery
  • Transition Metal Chemistry
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Microplastics pollution
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • X-ray fluorescence microscopy

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