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Mechanisms of Disease and Translational Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Belinda Di Bartolo, Kolling Institute of Medical Research Belinda completed her PhD in 2009 at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney. In 2011 she was awarded an NHMRC Early Career Training Fellowship to undertake research at the Centre for Vascular Research.

Mechanisms of Disease and Translational Research Seminar

School of Medical Sciences 2019 Seminar Series Bruce Neal is Deputy Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health in Australia, Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Imperial College London.  Bruce completed his medical training at Bristol University in the UK in 1990 and spent four years in clinical posts. Prior to taking up his position at the Institute in 1999 he worked as an epidemiologist at the Clinical Trials Research Unit in Auckland, New Zealand, where he completed his PhD in Medicine.

Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Zhi Yi Ong is a DECRA fellow in the School of Psychology, UNSW. She completed her PhD in biomedical science at the University of South Australia in 2013, where she investigated the impact of maternal diet on offspring food preferences and neural changes in the central reward system. During postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, she examined the function of neuropeptides, their signaling pathways and the contribution of extra-hypothalamic regions in the regulation of energy balance.