Professor Markus Seibel

Professor
Medicine, Concord Clinical School
ANZAC Research Institute

C22 - Concord Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

T: +61 2 9767 6109 (direct) +61 2 9767 6747 (reception)
F: +61 2 9767 7472
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Research interests

Bone biology, osteoblast differentitiation and signalling, transgenic models of bone disease, metastatic bone disease, osteoporosis, bone and mineral metabolism, vitamin D, biochemical markers of bone turnover

Teaching areas

Clinical Medicine - Endocrinology

Biomedical Research - Bone Biology, Bone Cell Biology, Bone Metabolism, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Transgenesis

Current national competitive grants*

2010

Ageing, Nutrition and Geometric Framework
Cumming R, Simpson S, Le Couteur D, Blyth F, Naganathan V, Kendig H, Seibel M
NHMRC Project Grant ($715,250 over 3 years)

The role of endogenous glucocorticoids in Autoimmune Arthritis
Zhou H, Seibel M, Stewart P, Buttgereit F, Cooper M
NHMRC Project Grant ($662,600 over 4 years)

The Role of the Osteoblast in Mediating Glucocorticoid-induced Metabolic Dysfunction
Seibel M, Zhou H, Gundberg C, Dunstan C
NHMRC Project Grant ($788,900 over 4 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

International links

Germany. (Humboldt University Berlin) Prof Frank Buttgereit.
Belgium. (Prof Wim van Hul) Genetics of osteoporosis and bone mass.
Israel. (Tel Aviv University) Prof Gregory Livshits.
Germany. (University of Wuerzburg) Prof Franz Jacob.
United States. (Columbia University) Prof John Bilezikian.