Rate My Professor David Craik

Professor David Craik, AO, FRS, FAA, is a professor in the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, where he leads a research team of 35 focusing on protein structure in drug and insecticide design. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and conducted postdoctoral studies at Florida State University and Syracuse University. Craik began his career with a lectureship at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1983, advancing to Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Head of School in 1988. In 1995, he joined the University of Queensland to establish a biomolecular NMR laboratory and has held positions including UQ Laureate Fellow (2015-2020), NHMRC Fellow, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science. He has trained over 70 PhD students, receiving UQ’s Research Supervision Excellence Award in 2007, and serves on editorial boards of journals such as Angewandte Chemie and ACS Chemical Biology, as well as the Council of the American Peptide Society (2015-2021).