David Peralta

Biography

David studied chemistry and German culture & language at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines (BSc Chem 2006, MSc Chem 2009). There, he taught courses in general chemistry, biochemistry, and science & society while finishing his MSc degree. In 2009, he moved to Germany to do his doctoral work at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in the research group of PD Dr. Tobias Dick, where he discovered a mechanism for the H2O2-sensitivity of the moonlighting enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). In 2015, he earned his Dr. rer nat in biochemistry (DSc/PhD) from the DKFZ and the Ruprecht–Karls University of Heidelberg. Shortly before his doctoral defense, he joined Wiley-VCH in 2014 as an Assistant Editor for both ChemMedChem and ChemistryOpen. In 2015, he then became Associate Editor for these journals and the new Wiley-VCH journal ChemistrySelect. In 2016, he became the Managing Editor of ChemMedChem and eventually its Editor-in-Chief in 2017.

David's primary scientific interests are in biochemistry, redox biology, protein chemistry, cancer research, and medicinal chemistry. Aside from this, he is heavily involved in science publication and communication. Outside of the scientific and publishing spheres, David's interests include the culinary arts, theater, singing, and German history and culture.

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