Yu Heng Lau

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Yu Heng is an Associate Professor and research group leader in the School of Chemistry. He completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge, developing new chemical methods for synthesising peptide-based therapeutics. He subsequently moved to Harvard Medical School as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of synthetic biology, building recoded synthetic genomes and engineering self-assembling proteins.

His research lies at the interface of synthetic chemistry and synthetic biology. His lab takes inspiration from macromolecules found in nature, harnessing the power of biocompatible chemistry to create new medicines and catalysts.

Visit his lab website at LauGroup.net

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor in Chemical Biology, University of Sydney
  • 2021–2024
    Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
  • 2017–2020
    Lecturer, University of Sydney
  • 2015–2017
    Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Education

  • 2015 
    University of Cambridge, PhD in Chemistry
  • 2009 
    University of Sydney, Bachelor of Science (Adv)(Hons)

Professional Memberships

  • Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)
  • Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
  • Australian Peptide Association (APA)

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