Dr Yu Heng Lau is a Senior Lecturer, SOAR Prize recipient, and group leader in the School of Chemistry. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, developing new chemical methods for synthesising peptide-based therapeutics. He then moved to Harvard Medical School as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of synthetic biology, building recoded synthetic genomes in bacteria and engineering self-assembling protein nanocompartments in yeast. At Sydney, he has held an ARC DECRA (2019-21) and Westpac Research Fellowships (2020-23), and received a NSW Tall Poppy Award (2021).
The Lau group uses a combination of organic chemistry and synthetic biology to control the architecture of natural proteins and peptides to create new medicines, materials and catalysts.
For more in-depth information about Dr Yu Heng Lau and his work, please refer to: https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/yuheng-lau.html