Peter Andrew White

After my undergraduate studies in Biotechnology from King’s College London, I completed a PhD at University College, London in molecular microbiology and protein biochemistry. In 1996, I started a period of Postdoctoral research at Macquarie University, Sydney, as a recipient of a Royal Society Fellowship. Then in 1998, I joined the Virology Division, Prince of Wales Hospital as Hepatitis Group Leader until 2002. In January 2003, I was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at UNSW and established a molecular microbiology research group and laboratory within the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences. Currently, I lead a highly successful research team attracting substantial peer-reviewed and industry funding, as well as Postgraduate and Honours students. The main research areas of the lab include molecular virology, viral discovery, tracking pandemic noroviruses, the development of antivirals and viral evolution. In addition to leading the research group, I am also the course Coordinator for the third year science course Viruses and Disease (MICR3061), I teach 1st and 2nd year medical students, and I also lecture on numerous 1st, 2nd and 3rd year courses here at UNSW. Infectious diseases, Viral Discovery, Viral replication, Norovirus, Hepatitis viruses, Viral evolution and recombination, Antiviral agents, Viral Transmission, Outbreaks and molecular epidemiology