Name Peter Colman Fields Bcl-2, Structural biology | Role Researcher | |
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Institutions University of OregonUniversity of SydneyUniversity of MelbourneLa Trobe UniversityWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical ResearchCSIRO Thesis The physical structure of two parabanic acid complexes and an investigation of short intermolecular carbon-oxygen contacts (1969) Known for Zanamivir (Relenza)Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) Influences Robert HuberHans Freeman Notable awards Awards Fellow of the Royal Society Institution | ||
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Peter Malcolm Colman (born 1944) FRS is the head of the Structural biology Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.
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- Type 1 diabetes research update with professor peter colman
- Education
- Research
- Awards and honours
- References
Education
Colman was educated at the University of Adelaide, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1965 and a PhD in 1969 for research on the chemical structure of parabanic acid complexes.
Research
Colman's research interests are in structural biology, especially of human B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2). His work has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature , the Journal of Molecular Biology, and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
Awards and honours
Colman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination citation read:
Colman was also elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1989 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture in 1995.