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Antonio Gonzalez Sanchez is a Lecturer at The Rowett Institute within the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen, where he has been employed since 2018. His research focuses on how the brain predicts and controls metabolic changes in the body, with particular emphasis on appetite regulation and hypothalamic networks.
Dr. Gonzalez Sanchez earned his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge and the Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge in 2005, following an MSc in Biochemistry from the Institute of Biotechnology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2001) and a Medicine degree from Universidad LaSalle, Mexico City (1997).
His research interests center on the physiology and pharmacology of brain glucose sensors, hypothalamic networks responsible for metabolic regulation, and appetite and body weight control. His work investigates how brain sugar sensors detect fluctuations in sugar and communicate with other brain regions as part of wider neural circuitry. His publications reveal a consistent focus on orexin neurons, hypothalamic function, and metabolic regulation, with recent work exploring GABAergic circuits driving feeding behavior and projections from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to hypothalamic nuclei.
Dr. Gonzalez Sanchez has secured significant research funding, including a £430k BBSRC New Investigator Scheme grant (2021-2024) and a £20k Welcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund award (2018).
He teaches various neuroscience-related courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including Molecular Pharmacology, Advanced Molecules, Membranes and Cells, Developmental Neuroscience, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Neuroscience Research Topics. He also serves as course coordinator for Clinical Nutrition For Disease Prevention and supervises undergraduate tutorials, Honours projects, and MSc in Human Nutrition students.
His laboratory work focuses on hypothalamic networks, brain glucose sensors, and neural circuits controlling appetite and metabolism, with particular interest in orexin neurons and their role in metabolic regulation.
