Dr Johan Rosengren is a Group Leader and Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia. His expertise is in NMR spectroscopy and its application to natural products, medicinal chemistry and biology, and he has made significant contributions to both NMR methodology and peptide structural biology.

Johan completed his undergraduate studies in biomedical chemistry at the University of Kalmar, Sweden. He then completed his PhD, which focused on structure-activity relationships of antimicrobial peptides, under the supervision of Professor David Craik at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ, in 2003. After post-doctoral work at IMB he moved to Sweden in 2005 to take up a position as Assistant Professor at Linnaeus University. During 2008-2009 he held a joint appointment between Linnaeus University and Uppsala University. In 2009 he was awarded the Swedish ‘Docent’ title before returning to University of Queensland, and establishing his research program on the back of NHMRC Career Development and ARC Future Fellowships. Johan’s research focuses on bioactive peptides, in particular how structural features control activity and stability. His main interests are peptide hormones, peptide natural products with unusual constraints, and the use of NMR spectroscopy in the design of novel peptide drug leads. He has solved >100 structures using NMR spectroscopy and published >140 papers that have been cited >7500 times. His work has been recognised by the Sir Paul Callaghan medal from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance.