Our researchers
Meet the academic staff who lead our major research themes and programmes.
Nutrition and metabolism
Associate Professor Fiona Lithander
Nutrition
Dr Barbara Cormack
Neonatal nutrition
Dr Farha Ramzan
Nutrition, genetics and metabolic health
Dr Mariana Muelbert
Nutrition, metabolism and growth of preterm infants
Fetal, perinatal and maternal health
Professor Frank Bloomfield
Fetus and newborn, nutrition
Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding
Fetus and newborn, nutrition, neonatal glycaemia, long-term outcomes
Professor Caroline Crowther
Maternal and perinatal health
Professor Katie Groom
Maternal health
Dr Gergely Toldi
Immunology. neonatology, autoimmunity, obstetrics and gynaecology
Dr Luling Lin
Maternal and infant health, research synthesis, translational research
Dr Lisa Dawes
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Immunology
Dr Gergely Toldi
Immunology, neonatology, autoimmunity, obstetrics and gynaecology
Anna Brooks
Flow cytometry and the immune system
Mechanisms and physiology - Ngapouri Research Farm
Dr Mark Oliver
Maternal environment, intrauterine growth restriction, prematurity, nutrition for pregnant and young ruminants
Dr Anne Jaquiery
Maternal nutrition, intrauterine growth restriction, prematurity
Genome biology
Professor Justin O'Sullivan
Genetics and genome organisation
Dr Olin Silander
Evolutionary biology, microbiology, and genomics
Dr Theo Portlock
Gut microbiome, computational biology, metabolism
Cancer
Associate Professor Jo Perry
Endocrinology, growth factors
Dr Yue Wang
Cancer cell biology
Clinical endocrinology
Professor Wayne Cutfield
Paediatric endocrinology, nutrition. Director, A Better Start (National Science Challenge)
Professor Paul Hofman
Paediatric endocrinology, exercise
Dr Ben Albert
Paediatric endocrinology
Developmental programming and knowledge translation
Professor Mark Vickers
Developmental programming, nutrition
Dr Jacquie Bay
LENScience, DOHaD knowledge translation adolescent populations
Evolutionary medicine
Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Evolutionary medicine, developmental epigenetics, and developmental origins of health and disease