About
I study how metabolic diseases like diabetes are linked to heart failure. I did my PhD with Prof Andrew Brown (UNSW) on how prostate cancer cells accumulate lipids, igniting my interest in metabolism. Supported by early-career fellowships (NHMRC, ADS) and Diabetes Australia grants, I post-doc’d with Prof David James (USyd), using metabolic technologies (metabolomics, flux labelling, respirometry) to show the importance of adipose (fat) cell metabolism in diabetes. I am now exploring how nutrient metabolism drives cardiac physiology.