Nial J. Wheate

Nial J. Wheate
Born	Werribee, Victoria, Australia
Residence	Scotland
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Strathclyde University of New South Wales University of Western Sydney Royal Australian Navy
Alma mater	University of New South Wales Australian Defence Force Academy
Doctoral advisor	[J. Grant Collins]
Notable awards	Australian Defence Medal (2005)

Nial J. Wheate is an Australian bioinorganic chemist at the University of Strathclyde.

Career

After completing high school at Copland College in Canberra, Australia, he was appointed an officer in the Royal Australian Navy and attended the Australian Defence Force Academy,^[1] where he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree double majoring in chemistry, in 1997 with Class I honours for his degre . After a short appointment as a Visiting Military Scholar, Nial undertook a PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor J. Grant Collins within the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, at University College, University of New South Wales, with a thesis: Platinum Anticancer Drugs in 2001.^[2]

Over the next three years Wheate was posted to the School of Air Navigation, RAAF Base East Sale, the Air Coordination and Policy Agency, the Joint Health Support Agency and the Sea Power Centre – Australia.^[3]. He left the Navy in 2005, revceiving the Australian Defence Medal in 2007. He was then appointed a Senior Fellow in the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at the University of Western Sydney before appointment as a lecturer in medicinal chemistry in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Research interests

Wheate's research interests are in the field of metal-based drugs for use in chemotherapy. His research group's work includes drug design and synthesis, encapsulation of drugs in macrocyles, attachment of drugs to nanoparticles, drug solid state stability and polymorphism (materials science), drug mechanisms of action, improving drug solubility through the formation of cocrystals, drug metabolism, drug preformulation and formulation, and drug-excipient interactions in various dosage forms. He is best known for his work on multinuclear platinum-based drugs^[4] and the drug delivery applications of cucurbiturils.^[5]

He is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Acdemy.

He was previously an associate editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry.

Other contributions

Nial has also published in a variety of other areas including military justice,^[6] naval history,^[7][8] weapons of mass destruction^[9] and he has written a novel titled Whikatak Island.^[10]

==References==

1. ^ http://www.raci.org.au/jobs-careers/career-profiles-2/lecturer-in-medicinal-chemistry-and-ex-navy-officer
2. ^ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3584312?l-format=Thesis&sortby=dateDesc&q=nial+wheate&l-availability=y&l-australian=y&c=book
3. ^ http://www.navy.gov.au/Sea_Power_Centre_-_Australia
4. ^ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-8545(03)00050-X Multi-nuclear platinum complexes as anti-cancer drugs. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2003, 241, 133
5. ^ http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijch.201100033 The potential of cucurbit[n]urils in drug delivery, Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2011, 51, 616-624
6. ^ http://www.adfjournal.adc.edu.au/UserFiles/issues/160%202003%20May_Jun.pdf Lawful Dissent and the Modern Australian Defence Force, Australian Defence Force Journal, 2003, 160, 20-30.
7. ^ http://www.defence.gov.au/publications/dfj/ADFJ160.pdf Lawful Dissent and the Modern Australian Defence Force database of Royal Australian Navy Operations 1990-2005.
8. ^ http://www.navy.gov.au/Publication:Papers_in_Australian_Maritime_Affairs_No._16 Borneo 1945 – An amphibious success story, Paper in Australian Maritime Affairs, 2005, 16, p 139.
9. ^ http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/PIAMA19.pdf The chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threat, Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs, 2006, 19, 71-76.
10. ^ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/659965?lookfor=author:%22Wheate,%20Nial%20%28Nial%20J.%29,%201976-%22&offset=1&max=1

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Name	Wheate, Nial J.
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Date of birth	April 13, 1976
Place of birth	Werribee, Australia
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