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SEMINAR: �Elucidating novel mechanisms underlying obesity and type 2 diabetes�

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Assistant Professor Vance Matthews is an NHMRC Career Development Award Fellow at the Western Australia Institute for Medical Research. Since completing his PhD in 2002, he has completed successful post-doctoral positions in Germany, Western Australia and Melbourne. The results of this work have been consistently cited and have been published in premier journals including Journal of Biological Chemistry, Blood, Hepatology, Cancer Cell, Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Diabetes and Diabetologia. Assistant Professor Vance Matthews has been invited to present his research at the Interbranch HLA Laboratory (Halle, Germany), Storr Liver Unit (Westmead, Sydney), Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Melbourne) and numerous conferences including the “Australian Biotherapeutics and Tissue Regeneration Forum”, “2nd Annual Molecular Mechanisms of Development Conference”, “The Australian Diabetes Society Annual Meeting” and lastly the “3rd World Congress on Diabetes and Metabolism” which was in Hyderabad, India in September 2012. He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the University of Western Australia, Medical Research Foundation and National Health and Medical Research Council and was awarded a competitive Early Career Scientist Grant from the Baker Heart Research Institute as well as two grants from the Diabetes Australia Research Trust. In addition, he was deputy chair for the 2011 Combined Biological Sciences Meeting, is a member of the “World Journal of Gastroenterology” editorial board and was a panel member for the NHMRC Early Career Fellowships in 2012. Lastly, he is an organising committee member for the “4th World Congress on Diabetes and Metabolism” to be held in Chicago in 2013.
Speaker(s) Assistant Professor Vance Matthews
Location Bruce Hunt Lecture Theatre, Level 2 South Block, Royal Perth Hospital (Enter South Block directly from Wellington Street, at street level, and the theatre is on your immediate right.)
Contact Fiona Mackenzie <[email protected]> : 9346 3838
URL http://www.waimr.uwa.edu.au
Start Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:00
End Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00
Submitted by Fiona Mackenzie <[email protected]>
Last Updated Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:36
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