Peter Novick is an American scientist who holds the George Palade Endowed Chair in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Novick attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was among the first graduate students in the laboratory of future Nobel Prize winner Randy Schekman, and from which he received his PhD in 1981.
[2][3] Novick's work focused on the molecular genetics of the secretory pathway in yeast.
[4] He moved to UCSD in 2008 as the first holder of the George Palade Endowed Chair.
[2][8] Novick is married to fellow scientist and UCSD professor Susan Ferro-Novick.