Richard Payne

Dr. Payne is a Professor of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology at The University of Sydney and is a pioneer in the development of novel bioconjugation chemistry and in the generation of synthetic proteins through novel chemical ligation methodologies developed in his laboratory. Dr. Payne has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cambridge University, UK, and did his post-doctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. He is the recipient of several prizes as a result of his work including the Biota Medal for medicinal chemistry, the Rennie Memorial Medal (Royal Australian Chemical Institute), the Le Fevre Memorial Prize (Australian Academy of Science), the Athel Beckwith Lectureship, the Tregear Award in Peptide Chemistry, the Edgeworth David Medal (Royal Society of NSW), the MedChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year (Malcolm McIntosh Prize). Dr. Payne has published more than 275 papers in high-impact journals, including Nature Protocols, and has an H-index of 40.