Nial J. Wheate

Over the next three years Wheate was posted to the School of Air Navigation (now the School of Air Combat), RAAF Base East Sale, the Air Coordination and Policy Agency, the Joint Health Support Agency and the Sea Power Centre – Australia. He left the navy in 2005. He was then appointed a Senior Fellow in the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at the University of Western Sydney before appointment as a lecturer in medicinal chemistry in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Currently he is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Medicine and Health University of Sydney. In 2013 he was appointed the Head of Cancer research within the Faculty of Pharmacy.

In 2013 Wheate was elected Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in recognition of his achievements in cancer research and is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

After completing high school at Copland College in Canberra, Australia, Wheate was appointed an officer in the Royal Australian Navy and attended the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree double majoring in chemistry, graduating in 1997 with Honours Class I for his degree. After a short appointment as a Visiting Military Scholar, Wheate undertook a PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor J. Grant Collins within the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, at University College, University of New South Wales, with a thesis "Platinum Anticancer Drugs" in 2001.

Nial J. Wheate (born 1976) is an Australian pharmaceutical chemist at the University of Sydney.