Peter Downes

Sir Charles Peter Downes OBE FMedSci FRSE (born 15 October 1953) is a British biochemist and the current Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee. He is the former Head of the College of Life Sciences and co-founder of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) alongside Sir Phillip Cohen. Having contributed to research in the pharmaceutical industry for eleven years prior to joining Dundee, he is one of the top 15 most cited bio-scientists in the UK.