Professor Jennie Brand-Miller
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Professor
G08 - Biochemistry Building |
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Themes | Research interests | Grants | Keywords
Themes
Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease; Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health; Chronic and Preventable Conditions
Research interests
Jennie's research interests focus on all aspects of carbohydrates including diet and diabetes, the glycemic index and insulin resistance. Her research group is internationally recognised for its work on nutritional aspects of food carbohydrates.
Visit http://www.glycemicindex.com/ for more information.
Current national competitive grants*
2008
Transcriptional regulation of gene expression: Dietary sialic acid interaction in brain cognitive development
Wang B, Brand-Miller J, Denyer G, Yu B
NHMRC Project Grant ($540,438 over 3 years)
2007
Testing the protein leverage hypothesis in humans
Simpson S, Conigrave A, Caterson I, Brand-Miller J
NHMRC Project Grant ($778,000 over 3 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney
Keywords
Diabetes; Obesity & overweight; Women's health; Nutrition and metabolism; Diet