Brief CV for Dr Peter Molan
Born in Cardiff, Wales (UK) in 1943 Nationality: New Zealand Degrees:
BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Wales (UK) in 1965
PhD in Dental Science from the University of Liverpool (UK) in 1969 Positions held:
Lecturer in Dental Science at the University of Liverpool (UK) 1968-1973
Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Waikato 1973-1974 Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Waikato 1974-1994 Associate Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Waikato 1994-2003 Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Waikato 2003-2014 Director of the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato 1995-2013 Seconded (two-thirds time) from the University of Waikato, under the NZ Government’s Technology for Business Growth scheme, to the Tatua Biologics division of the Tatua Dairy Company as Research and Development Manager to establish commercial extraction and purification of antibacterial proteins and calcium-carrying peptides from milk 1992-1995 Honours and awards:
MBE awarded in the Queen's Birthday honours list 1995 (for services to the honey industry)
Publications: as a pdf. New Zealand Science and Technology Silver Medal awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2001 (for his research on manuka honey and for making the public aware of it) The ‘Science Entrepreneur Award’ from the Kudos Hamilton Science Excellence Awards in 2007 The ‘Comfeel Literary Award’, made by the Australian Wound Management Association and Coloplast Australia, for the best paper in the literature review/clinical practice category published in the Association’s journal Wound Practice and Research in 2011 The ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the Kudos Hamilton Science Excellence Awards in 2013 |