Peter conducted his PhD at Bayer Healthcare in Wuppertal, Germany in the area of nitric oxide-independent blood pressure regulation. Based on this work he got awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship to continue his research at the department of Pharmacology at Monash University in Melbourne. He left academia to join CSIRO and, after 4 years, took over the position as Senior Scientist in CSL’s R&D department in Melbourne, Australia. After 7 years at CSL in Australia Peter has recently relocated to Germany to run the department of Recombinant Technologies. As such he is involved in all aspects of the early development of new biologics.