Associate Professor Peter Northcote

Associate Professor Peter Northcote specialises in natural products chemistry, part of Victoria University of Wellington’s world-leading biotechnology and chemistry research hub. This area aims to identify previously undiscovered chemicals from natural sources.

Peter, who is now part the Ferrier Research Institute, has been working at Victoria University of Wellington since 1994, firstly researching marine organisms and, more recently, looking for new chemicals in medicinal land plants from the Solomon Islands.

He says he has always been interested in science and sea creatures, and when the chance to combine chemistry with the ocean arose, in the form of a PhD at the University of British Columbia in Canada, it was “a dream come true.”

In 2018, Peter was recognised as one the most influential researchers in the world in the field of Pharmacology and Toxicology. The list, which is produced by Clarivate Analytics, considers contemporary research—that published between 2006-2016—across 21 categories.

Publications

View Peter’s publications on Google Scholar.