Peter Wich

Dr. Peter Wich leads the Research Lab for Functional Biopolymers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia). His primary research interests are in the fields of macromolecular chemistry at the interface between nanotechnology and bioorganic chemistry. His lab focuses on the chemical modification of natural biopolymers with the aim to engineer new multi-functional and biocompatible materials for applications in drug delivery, nanomedicine, bio-catalysis, and 3D printing. Dr. Wich...See more

Dr. Peter Wich leads the Research Lab for Functional Biopolymers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia). His primary research interests are in the fields of macromolecular chemistry at the interface between nanotechnology and bioorganic chemistry. His lab focuses on the chemical modification of natural biopolymers with the aim to engineer new multi-functional and biocompatible materials for applications in drug delivery, nanomedicine, bio-catalysis, and 3D printing. Dr. Wich is an expert in the field of biopolymer modification and the (self) assembly of these new biohybrid materials into nanoparticles for dynamic drug delivery systems. Dr. Wich has been awarded more than 20 prizes and scholarships for his research, including the Innovation Prize in Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry for his work on bioinspired nanomaterials (jointly awarded by the Awarded by the German Chemical and the German Pharmaceutical Society) and the Galenus Technology Prize, for his innovative achievements in the field of Pharmaceutical Technology. In 2016, he was selected as "Young Member" of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, Germany. In recognition of his achievements, he was selected in 2019 to represent the element Roentgenium in the IUPAC Periodic Table of Younger Chemists. In 2019 Peter was named Emerging Investigator of the Journal "Soft Matter" and in 2020 he was selected as Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigator. See less