| Peter
Little |
 Peter Little is the Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Professor Little obtained his PhD in 1976 from Edinburgh University, studying with Edwin Southern and Peter Walker. He carried out postdoctoral research between 1976 and 1980 at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, from 1980 to 1981 at the California Institute of Technology and from 1981 to 1982 at Harvard University. From 1982-1987 he was a staff scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London and from 1987 to 2000 a Lecturer, then Reader, at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine. He accepted his current position and moved to Australia in 2000.
Professor Little's research has been at the interface of molecular genetics, genetics and computational biology and he has published over 100 papers in these areas. He is a widely read commentator on molecular genetics and genomics and has a present research interest in the effects of genetic variation upon transcription.
He has a long experience in the administration of science, working with national and international agencies and corporations and is on the editorial board of a number of genomics and biochemistry. |
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