Dr Sadegh Shabani awarded prestigious organic chemistry PhD thesis Award

Dr Sadegh Shabani has been awarded the Lew Mander Best PhD Thesis in Organic Chemistry Award for 2021.

Dr Shabani’s thesis on the total synthesis of biologically active cyclic peptides also won the University of Melbourne's Monica Reum Memorial Prize.

The award recognises outstanding achievement by a recent PhD graduate and is awarded annually to a Royal Australian Chemical Institute member who is judged to have submitted the most outstanding PhD thesis in organic chemistry.

Dr Shabani is now a joint postdoctoral research fellow working on the synthesis of antibacterial polypeptides at the University's Graduate School of Chemical Engineering and Oral Health Research.

His research interests include novel synthetic methodologies, synthesis of cyclic peptides, and synthesis of antimicrobial peptides and polypeptides.

Dr Shabani undertook his undergraduate and master studies at the University of Tehran before completing his PhD in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Craig Hutton.