Fernando Albericio

Fernando Albericio is a Research Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (Spain) with 50 years of experience in peptide chemistry.

His major research interests cover practically all aspects of peptide synthetic methodology as well as the synthesis of peptides and small molecules with therapeutic activities (cancer and infectious diseases).   Lastly, he was working on greening the solid-phase peptide synthesis processes. He has published more than 1000 scientific articles, filed more than 60 patents, and graduated more than 80 Ph.D. students.

He was recently awarded the 2025 Chemistry Today Lifetime Achievement Award (Teknoscience, Italy), the 2024 Rudinger Award (European Peptide Society), the 2024 Meienhofer Award (Boulder Peptide Foundation), the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award (European Peptide Synthesis Conference), the 2022 Gold Medal [South Africa Chemistry Institute (SACI)],.and the 2019 Goodman Award (American Peptide Society).