Professor Peter J. Little AM

Professor Peter J. Little AM completed a B. Pharm. at the Victorian College of Pharmacy (now Monash University) followed by an M. Sc. and Ph. D. in Drug Metabolism in Pharmacy at The University of Sydney and Post-Doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in the USA. Peter initially worked on ion transport and hypertension and then later redirected his attention to the cardiovascular complications of diabetes with an emphasis of the role of proteoglycans in lipid deposition diseases such as atherosclerosis. After a 20 year career at the BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and Alfred Health, in November 2010 Peter took up the position as Foundation Head of Pharmacy at RMIT University, in Melbourne, Australia where he continued his research on the identification of new therapeutic targets for the prevention of the cardiovascular complications of diabetes as well as pharmacy practice projects around expanding the role of pharmacists in community based health care. On June 1^st 2015 Peter took up the position as Head of the School of Pharmacy at The University of Queensland and moved his research laboratory to the Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellent (PACE) at UQ. Peter currently holds an appointment as Professor and Dean (Visiting) at the Department of Pharmacy at Xinhua College of Sun Yat-sen University and also as High end Foreign Expert (Teaching) 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.

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