Peter Shepherd

Biography

  Peter Shepherd graduated from Massey University and following postdoctoral positions at Harvard and Cambridge he became a staff member at University College London where he was promoted to Professor in 2003. There he became involved in biotechnology and was named London Young Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the year in 2002. Since moving back to Auckland in 2004 he has continued to focus on research of the signal transduction pathways in the cell and how defects in these lead to the development of cancer and diabetes. He founded biotechnology company Symansis to develop novel tools for drug discovery, and was co-founder of drug development company Pathway Therapeutics.

Research Interest

 Cancer