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Dr. Amanda Brandon is a Research Fellow in Physiology at the University of Sydney's School of Medical Sciences. She holds membership in the Charles Perkins Centre and focuses on metabolic health, insulin resistance, and nutritional impacts on disease. Her work spans developmental programming effects of maternal diet, obesity mechanisms, and dietary interventions in metabolic disorders.
Dr. Brandon completed her PhD at UNSW (2007) under Dr. Karen Gibson, studying fetal programming of renal systems. Postdoctoral research at the Garvan Institute with Professors Ted Kraegen and Gregory Cooney examined obesity and insulin resistance mechanisms. Since 2016, she has investigated nutrition's role in metabolic health and aging under Prof. Stephen Simpson's group.
Research highlights include studies on high-starch diet effects in mice, sex-specific metabolic responses to maternal diet, and proteomic analysis of metabolic pathways in diabetes. She has secured grants from Diabetes Australia for projects on dietary gender interactions in insulin resistance and interventions targeting obesity-related metabolic dysfunction.
Key collaborations involve the Garvan Institute and University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. Her work bridges basic research and translational studies, aiming to uncover nutritional strategies to combat metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
