Peter Little
Prof Peter J. Little completed a B. Pharm. at the Victorian College of Pharmacy (now Monash) followed by an M. Sc. and Ph. D. at The University of Sydney and Post-Doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health (USA). Peter’s research for the last decade has centred on the cardiovascular complications of diabetes, specifically the role of modified glycosaminoglycan chains on proteoglycans in lipid deposition diseases such as atherosclerosis. After a 20 year career at the BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and Alfred Health, in 2010 Peter became the Foundation Head of Pharmacy at RMIT University, in Melbourne, a program which graduated its first cohort of students in December 2014. In June 2015, Peter became Head of the School of Pharmacy at The University of Queensland and moved his research laboratory to the Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellent at UQ. Peter has over 150 publications with an H factor of 40. Peter is Professor and Dean (Visiting) of Pharmacy at Xinhua College of Sun Yat-sen University and a High end Foreign Expert through Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Peter is a former National President of Diabetes Australia and was Founding Secretary and later President of The Australian Vascular Biology Society. In 2007, Peter received an Order of Australia (“AM”) for services to people with diabetes and diabetes research.
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