Peter Leadlay#

• 2006 - 2017 University of Cambridge Inaugural Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry
• 2003 - 2004 Institut Pasteur Paris Chaire d'excellence internationale Blaise Pascal
• 1999 - 2006 University of Cambridge Professor of Molecular Enzymology
• 1994 - 1999 University of Cambridge Reader in Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
• 1984 - 1994 University of Cambridge Lecturer in Biochemistry
• 1979 - 1984 University of Cambridge Demonstrator in Biochemistry
• 1976 - 1979 University of Oxford Demonstrator in Biochemistry

• Polyketides and polyketide megasynthases
• Coenzyme B12
• Genome sequencing
• Synthetic biology of antibiotic biosynthesis
• Erythromycin
• Modular assembly-line paradigm for enzyme catalysis
• Microbial biosynthesis of antibiotics
• Mechanistic enzymology
• Aminoglycoside biosynthetic pathways
• Genome mining

• 2014 - 2017 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
• 2012 Inhoffen Medal of the Helmholtz Foundation for Infection Research, Germany, for "outstanding natural products research"
• 2011 - 2012 International Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, held at TU Berlin
• 2011- present Honorary Professor, Wuhan University, PR China
• 2009 Smets Prize Chair, Universities of Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• 2007 Remsen Award of the American Chemical Society (only the second non-USA scientist honoured since 1927)
• 2006 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2003 - 2004 Prix Chaire Internationale de Recherche “Blaise Pascal”, Institut Pasteur Paris
• 2000 Fellow of the Royal Society London
• 1999 - 2004 BBSRC (UK) Professorial Research Fellow (1 awarded each year across all biological/biotechnological sciences)

Curriculum Vitae

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