Professor Jenny Gunton heads the Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Endocrinology Research (CDOER) and Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR). She is Chair of Medicine at Westmead Hospital and a clinical endocrinologist / diabetologist.
She received her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2003 having studied in Rob Baxter’s lab at the Kolling Institute.
She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Ron Kahn’s lab at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School in 2005. She returned to Australia to the Garvan Institute and set up the Diabetes and Transcription Factors lab. In 2012 she became the President of the Australian Diabetes Society and in 2014 became Chair of Medicine at Sydney University, Westmead Hospital. Her lab moved to the new WIMR in late 2014.
Her research interests include diabetes, obesity, and vitamin D. She is particularly interested in the intersection of transcription factors and their regulation by nutrients.
KeywordsMusculoskeletal diseases, Bone health, Nutrition and metabolism, Obesity & overweight, Diabetes
ThemesObesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Healthy Ageing, Lifespan
Clinical SpecialtyEndocrinology