Associate Professor Susan McLennan

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Themes | Research interests | Grants | PhD & Masters' project opportunities | Honours project opportunities | Keywords

Themes

Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease; Healthy Ageing

Research interests

Diabetes and its complications

Current national competitive grants*

2012

Role of Inflammation in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Twigg S, King N, McLennan S
NHMRC Project Grants ($476,325 over 3 years)

2011

Preventing Adverse Effects of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Diabetic Wound Healing
McLennan S, Twigg S, Min D, Yue D
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant ($374,400 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

PhD and Masters' project opportunities

Role of neutrophil associated lipocalin (NGAL) in poor wound healing in diabetes
Mechanism of the effect of diabetes on the inflammation and subsequent fibrosis
Molecular studies of thyroid cancer and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Honours project opportunities

Discovering Novel Biomarkers In Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
Glycosylation of Extracellular Matrix Metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN) in human liver disease and the development of cirrhosis and hepatic carcinoma
The role of Extracellular Matrix Metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN) mediated cell aggregation in the development of human liver injury and liver cancer.
To investigate the mechanism/s of SPP1 action in liver injury model of alcohol and high fat diet using SPP1 knockout animals

Keywords

Fibrosis; Cardiovascular diseases; Ageing; Endocrinology; Diabetes

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