June 2005

Peter M.D. Hardwicke, Ph.D., joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale in 1985 as an associate professor in medical biochemistry and became a professor in 1994.

Previously, he was a senior research associate in biology at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. (1980-85); and a research associate at Duke University in Durham, N.C. (1978-79). He was a research fellow in the pharmacology, anatomy and embryology departments at the University College in London (1973-78), and in biochemistry at the National Institute for Medical Research in London (1969-73).

Hardwicke earned his doctoral degree at Kings College in London, and his bachelor’s at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield (1969, 1962).

His research interests are Ca2+ transport by the Ca2+-ATPase and the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger, Regulation of Ca2+ levels in cells, Conjugated trienes in excitable tissues, Membrane proteolipids and Role of plasmacytoid cells in multiple sclerosis. He has published 70 journal articles.

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