Peter Wich - Wichlab

Promoted to Associate Professor #UNSW Sydney. Grateful to my team, collaborators and mentors for their support. Excited that this coincides with a 2025 #ARC Future Fellowship to advance our work on enzyme-based nanomaterials. Proud of what we’ve built, and energised for what’s next.
#Wichlab

Full house at #UNSW for ChemSoc lecture by David MacMillan (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2021) A fascinating overview of #photocatalysis and chemical biology, from metallaphotoredox catalysis to proximity labelling. Inspiring how #catalysis keeps reshaping synthesis, enabling new ways to probe biology.

One month to go until #RSCPoster 2026 🎉
3–4 March 2026 - fully online on LinkedIn
A global, low-barrier conference for students, ECRs & beyond. No travel, no fees, just great science and discussion.

All infos here: rsc.li/poster

#RSCPoster #MaterialsChemistry #ECRs #AcademicSky

Thanks for the opportunity to speak in the #Nanomedicine session at #ICONN2026, chaired by Nick Fletcher, organised by Sophia Gu & Kris Thurecht. Great talks on nanoswimmers (Kang Liang), NO-generating coatings (Siti Nur Asyura Adzlan) and CaP–Au nanoclusters for macrophage imaging (Tomoya Inose)

Great afternoon session in #Nanobiotechnology at #ICONN2026. Examples include polysuccinimide-based degradable #biomaterials (Hang Thu Ta, Griffith), nanoscale membrane deformation and oncogenic Ras clustering (Wenting Zhao, NTU), and #biomimetic #nanoparticles for vaccine delivery (Hao Song, UQ).

Great morning session in the #Nanobiotechnology stream at #ICONN2026 International Conference on #Nanoscience and #Nanotechnology in Sydney
From metal–phenolic nanomaterials to glycocalyx-aware drug delivery and electronic skins for health monitoring. Excellent talks by Richardson, Lord & Wang 👏

Great seminar today @unswchemistry.bsky.social by Prof. Maartje Basting (EPFL) on programmable #biomaterials 🧬
Beautiful work using DNA to control cell-material interactions, from immune activation to virus sensing. Thanks for a fantastic talk!

That's a wrap at #39APS – thanks to Luke Connal and the organising team. Congrats to prize winners Tom Roads, Bailey Richardson, Brett Pollard and RACI awardees Martina Stenzel, Stuart Thickett, Kristian Kempe. On to #40APS Alice Springs 2027 @polymerreaction.bsky.social #RACI #polymers #chemistry

Fantastic new session “Rising Stars in Oz Polymers” at #39APS today, with cutting-edge talks from Yasemin Fadıl, Valentin Bobrin, Edwin Johnson and Thomas Nicholls on polymers for nanomedicine, polymer brushes, light-responsive trisulfide polymers and degradable copolymers
#RACI #polymers #chemistry

Proud of our PhD student Saluo Lai! 🎉 Winner of the Best Poster Prize at #DDA2025 in Sydney and an excellent talk at #39APS in Canberra this week, showcasing great work in polymers, biomaterials, drug delivery and nanomedicine! #DrugDelivery #Nanomedicine #WichLab #UNSWChemEng #UNSWEngineering

Excellent talk by @k-ehrmann.bsky.social from @tuwien.at on crystalline polymers for light-based
3D printing #39APS #RACI #polymers #chemistry

Excellent keynote in the #Biomaterials session by Cameron Alexander @uniofnottingham.bsky.social on #nucleicacid delivery using #polymer therapeutics and the importance of the in-depth studies and appropriate models for translation
#39APS #RACI #polymers #chemistry @kriskilian.bsky.social

Fantastic first two days at the 39th Australasian Polymer Symposium ( #39APS) by the #Polymer Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute ( #RACI) with great plenaries by Brent Sumerlin, Kristian Kempe @kempigroup.bsky.social (Congrats on the David Sangster Award!) and Takuzo Aida.

Looks amazing - at this stage, you should start a lab recipe bake book or similar ;)

And that’s a wrap for Drug Delivery Australia (DDA) 2025 hosted by us in Sydney! 🎉 I had a fantastic time reconnecting with friends and colleagues.

See you in #Brisbane for #DDA2026

#DDA2025 #DrugDelivery #Nanomedicine #CRSAustralia #Research #Sydney

Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered | PNAS Dihydrodichlorofluorescein derivatives have been employed as reporters of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in innumerable studies. Their...

Hmmm
This work has so many implications on literature 😳😬

Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It was a pleasure to chair the first afternoon session at #DDA2025 - Great lineup with a Keynote by Kristian Kempe @kempigroup.bsky.social, and invited presentations by Arlene McDowell @universityofotago.bsky.social and Cornelia Keck @unimarburg.bsky.social
#DDA2025 #DrugDelivery

Next up Dr Jie Tang from #Monash on new approaches for
Overcoming the Mucosal Barriers using Nanoparticles for Inhaled RNA Delivery #DDA2025 #DrugDelivery #Nanomedicine

Amazing work by Clive Prestidge and his team on Lipid #Nanocarriers for Antimicrobial and Cancer Applications #DDA2025 #DrugDelivery #Nanomedicine

And with this we are kicking of the first day of #DDA2025 in Sydney! Welcome everyone!

We said goodbye to Sophie (centre), who joined us from #Germany 🇩🇪 for 3 months through a #DAAD RISE Scholarship She worked on #biopolymers, #nanomaterials & #hydrogels, bringing great energy to the lab! All the best, Sophie! #WichLab #UNSW #UNSWChemEng

Molecular Simulations of Polymer‐based Drug Nanocarriers: From Physical and Structural Properties to Controlled Release Polymer-based drug delivery systems can effectively overcome the limitations of free drugs in terms of solubility, stability, and plasma half-life, yet their development has traditionally relied on t...

💻 Would you like to learn more about molecular simulations of polymer-based drug nanocarriers? 🧪

📕 This review article, just out in Adv Funct Mater, is for you: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congrats to Ping Gao, Tâp Ha-Duong (BioCIS) and all co-authors for this great work!

Congrats Ned! 👏

Fantastic day at UNSW Open Day! Great to showcase our Chemical Engineering degrees and chat with so many future engineers about the big challenges they’ll get to tackle
#UNSW #OpenDay #ChemicalEngineering

We are still looking for PhD students! Get in touch with us if you are interested in this exciting industry collaboration.
#PhDposition #UNSW

When the PI hasn't worked in at the bench in years but needs to do something in the lab for a photoshoot

Great talk today @engineering.unsw.edu.au by Thomas Scheibel from the @unibayreuth.bsky.social with a fascinating talk on engineered #spidersilk for versatile uses in biofabrication. Exciting applications from hydrogels to bioinks! #biomaterials #biofabrication

What a great idea! #unsw mobile #makerspace

Abhishek joins our Team as a PhD student – Abhishek will work on polysaccharide-based nanosystems for therapeutic applications.
Welcome to our labs, and good luck with your experiments! 

#UNSW #UNSWEngineering #UNSWChemEng #WichLab

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...