Prof. David Craik

University of Queensland, Australia

David Craik is a Professor of biomolecular structure at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia (1981) and undertook postdoctoral studies at Florida State and Syracuse Universities before taking up an appointment at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1983. He moved to the University of Queensland in 1995 to set up a new biomolecular NMR laboratory. His contributions to medicinal chemistry and NMR have been recognized by the award of the Adrien Albert medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the ANZMAG medal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Magnetic Resonance, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s H G Smith Medal and the American Chemical Society’s Ralph F Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry (2011). His research interests focus on the application of NMR in drug design, and on toxins, including conotoxins. His group has a particular focus on structural studies of disulfide-rich proteins, and on the discovery and applications of circular proteins and novel protein topologies. He has trained more than 50 PhD students and is the author of >450 scientific publications.