The Reviewer

Peter Sadler obtained his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, U.K., and then spent two years as a Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research and University of Cambridge. In 1973 he was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemistry at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he subsequently became Reader in Biological Inorganic Chemistry, and then Professor of Chemistry. In 1996 he was appointed to the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and in June 2007 took up a Chair at the University of Warwick where he is also Head of Department. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and the Royal Society of London (FRS). His research on platinum group metals involves the design of organometallic ruthenium and osmium anticancer complexes, and photoactivated platinum anticancer complexes.