RESEARCH INTERESTS My research career has centred on multifactorial, common diseases with huge worldwide healthcare burdens such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. I am a molecular biologist with research expertise spanning genetics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, gene expression, peptide hormones, pancreatic islet isolation and functional analysis, in vivo models of metabolic disease. My current research areas are 1) insulin-family hormones, 2) genetic variants driving metabolic disease and 3) islet function in health and disease.