Actions and Interactions of Aldosterone and the Mineralocorticoid Receptor: an Evolutionary Perspective
Speaker: Professor Peter Fuller (Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne)
Chair: Professor Chen Chen
Title: Actions and Interactions of Aldosterone and the Mineralocorticoid Receptor: an Evolutionary Perspective
Short Bio:
Professor Peter Fuller is currently Head of the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Hudson Institute (formerly Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research) and Head of the Endocrinology Unit at Monash Health. He is a physician-scientist who’s clinical and research training was in Melbourne followed by postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests lie primarily in understanding the molecular mechanisms of adrenocortical steroid hormone action, particularly aldosterone and the mineralocorticoid receptor. His group also studies the molecular pathogenesis of endocrine tumours. He has served on principle committees/boards of the Endocrine Society (USA), NHMRC, Cancer Council of Victoria, Victorian Cancer Agency, Cabrini Institute and Endocrine Society of Australia. He has received awards from the Welcome Trust, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the British Endocrine Society and the Endocrine Society of Australia. In 2015 he was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
About School of Biomedical Sciences Research Seminar Series
The School of Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series presents seminars by international and national researchers as well as local researchers and postdocs.
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are held in the Otto Hirschfeld Building, Learning Theatre, 81-313 every second Friday from 2-3pm (note that this is the lecture theatre that you enter from outside on level 3 of Otto).