Person
Hambley, Trevor William (1955 - )
FAA
- Born
- 1955
- Occupation
- Inorganic chemist
- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1194-1896
Summary
Trevor Hambley is an inorganic chemist noted for his research on medicinal inorganic chemistry. His research emphasises platinum anticancer drugs, hypoxia selective cobalt complexes, and metal-based anti-inflammatory compounds. Results of his research have been published in over 470 refereed papers. Hambley is Emeritus Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, where he taught for many years.
Details
"Trevor has established an outstanding career in bioinorganic chemistry, crystallography and molecular mechanics research. His crystallographic research has been coupled with molecular mechanics and other calculations to bring about new insights into the understanding of how metal-ligand bond lengths and ligand conformations modulate chemical and physical properties of coordination complexes. Multidisciplinary research on metal anti-cancer drugs has traversed chemical, biochemical and cell biological studies in order to both design new drugs with greater efficacy and understand the activities of existing drugs. His pioneering bioinorganic chemistry research has led to his election as President of the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/trevor-hambley 2026.01.20]
Chronology
- 1982
- Education - PhD, University of Adelaide
- 1989
- Award - Edgeworth David Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2008 - 2010
- Career position - President, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
- 2011 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
- 2018 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2020? -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Comba, Peter and Hambley, Trevor W., Molecular modelling of inorganic compounds (Weinheim: New York: Wiley, 2001), 324 pp. Details
- George, Adrian V., Field, Leslie D. and Hambley, Trevor W., The essentials of organic chemistry: a supplementary text on fundamental aspects of organic chemistry (Sydney: Prentice-Hall Australia, 1996), 232 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Hambley, Trevor, 'Hans C. Freeman', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 48 (1995), 697-9. Details
- Hambley, Trevor, 'Hans Freeman 1929 - 2008', Journal of biological inorganic chemistry, 14 (2009), 327-8. Details
- Hambley, Trevor W., 'Transporter and protease mediated delivery of platinum complexes for precision oncology', Journal of biological inorganic chemistry, 24 (4) (2019), 457-66, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-019-01660-7. Details
- Hambley, Trevor W.; and Rae, Ian D., 'Hans Charles Freeman 1919 - 2008', Historical Records of Australian Science, 33 (2) (2022), 180-90. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR21011. Details
Resources
- 'Hambley, Trevor William (1955 - )', The Academy's Fellows [Fellows elected between 2011 and 2015], Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 2025, https://www.science.org.au/profile/trevor-hambley. https://www.science.org.au/fellowship. Details
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Created: 20 January 2026