Professor Paul Alewood

Edouard C. Nice is currently an Adjunct Professor at Monash University where he is Head of Clinical Biomarker Discovery and Validation (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and a scientific advisor to the Monash Antibody Technologies Facility (MATF), for which he was director from 2009 to 2013. He also holds a Visiting Professorship at Sichuan University/West China Hospital and an adjunct position at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His long-term research interests have been in protein and peptide micropurification, biomarker discovery and validation, SPR analysis, high throughput monoclonal antibody production and validation, and clinical biomarker assay development, with a strong translational focus on colorectal cancer, especially the development of faecal proteomics for colorectal cancer detection and surveillance. He is a founder member and past chair of the Australian Peptide Association, a founder member of the Protein and Peptide Society of Singapore and was awarded the 2012 Xiaoyu Hu Memorial Award by the Chinese Peptide Society in recognition of his significant achievements in peptide science. He has an active involvement in the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), having been co-chair and treasurer of the successful HUPO 2010 meeting in Sydney, and is currently co-chair of the Pathology Pillar and the Human Cancer Proteome Project and leader of the HUPO ANZ Chromosome 7 initiative.

John D. Wade obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1979 at Monash University, Australia, on the structural basis of the diabetogenic action of growth hormones. He received a Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Cambridge, UK, to undertake post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr R. C. Sheppard at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the development of the Fmoc-solid phase peptide synthesis methodology. In 1983, he returned to Melbourne at the invitation of the now Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, where he heads the Laboratory of Peptide and Protein Chemistry. His interests are in solid phase peptide synthesis of large, complex, functionalized, and often multi-chain peptides. Professor Wade is an NHMRC of Australia Principal Research Fellow and a Fellow of both the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Royal Society of Chemistry.