Our people
Our research and education excellence is a reflection of the people behind it. We have research group leaders who are world experts in their field, in addition to many talented researchers, educators and postgraduate students.
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Physiology Department leadership
| Head of Department | Professor Michael Cowley T: +61 3 9905 2526 E: michael.cowley@monash.edu W: Cowley Laboratory |  |
| Personal Assistant to the Head of Department | Mandy Curd T: +61 3 990 52062 E: mandy.curd@monash.edu | |
| Deputy Head of Department | Professor Marcello Rosa T:+61 3 9905 2522 E: marcello.rosa@monash.edu W: Rosa Laboratory |  |
| Head of Teaching and Learning | Associate Professor Julia Choate T: +61 3 9905 2562 E: julia.choate@monash.edu |  |
| Honours Co-convenor | Associate Professor Siew Chai T: +61 3 9905 2515 E: siew.chai@monash.edu W: Chai Laboratory |  |
| Honours Co-convenor | Associate Professor Nicholas Price T: +61 3 9905 5131 E: nicholas.price@monash.edu W: Price Laboratory |  |
| Master of Biomedical Health Science Convenor | Professor Ramesh Rajan T: +61 3 9905 2525 E: ramesh.rajan@monash.edu W: Rajan Laboratory |  |
| Graduate Research Co-ordinator | Dr Belinda Henry T: +61 3 9905 2500 E: belinda.henry@monash.edu W: Henry Laboratory |  |
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Our academic and research staff
Our Lab Heads and Group Leaders are listed below. The lab information (click on the links to visit their laboratory websites) showcases the incredible research each of them are doing.
| Name | Lab information | Program membership |
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| Professor Zane Andrews | Andrews Laboratory Neural Control of Energy Homeostasis | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Dr Kirsten Bubb | Cardiovascular Disease | |
| Associate Professor Julia Choate | Development & Stem Cells | |
| Professor Michael Cowley | Cowley Laboratory Metabolic neurophysiology | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Cardiovascular Disease; Neuroscience |
| Associate Professor Siew Chai | Chai Laboratory Insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP) | Neuroscience; Cardiovascular Disease; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Katrina Mirabito Colafella | Mirabito Colafella Laboratory Molecular and integrative mechanisms of vascular biology | Cardiovascular Disease |
| Professor Kate Denton | Denton Laboratory Hypertension research | Cardiovascular Disease; Development & Stem Cells; Neuroscience |
| Associate Professor Bradley Edwards | Edwards Laboratory Sleep disorders research | Neuroscience |
| Dr Claire Foldi | Foldi Laboratory Anorexia and feeding disorders group | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Dr Maureen Hagan | Hagan Group Neural mechanisms of visual behaviour and cognition | Neuroscience |
| Associate Professor Craig Harrison | Harrison and Walton Laboratory Growth factor therapeutics | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Belinda Henry | Henry Laboratory Metabolic neuroendocrinology | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Associate Professor Wendy Imlach | Imlach Laboratory Pain mechanisms | Neuroscience |
| Dr Sarah Lockie | Lockie Laboratory Appetite & behavioural control group | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Farshad Mansouri | Mansouri Laboratory Cognitive neuroscience | Neuroscience |
| Dr Steven Miller | Miller Laboratory Perceptual and clinical neuroscience | Neuroscience |
| Professor Brian Oldfield | Oldfield Laboratory Metabolic neuroscience | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Professor Helena Parkington | Neuroscience; Cardiovascular Disease; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity | |
| Associate Professor Nicholas Price | Price Laboratory Neural coding for perception | Neuroscience |
| Professor Ramesh Rajan | Rajan Laboratory Sensory information and the brain | Neuroscience; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Dr Remy Robert | Robert Laboratory Therapeutic antibodies for inflammation | Immunity |
| Professor Marcello Rosa | Rosa Laboratory Structure, function and plasticity of the cerebral cortex | Neuroscience |
| Dr Tatsuo Sato | Neuroscience | |
| Dr Stephanie Simonds | Simonds Laboratory Integrated physiology | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Professor David Spanswick | Spanswick Laboratory Obesity and metabolic neurophysiology | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Dr Romana Stark | Stark Laboratory Brain glucose regulation group | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Aneta Stefanidis | Gut-brain signalling group | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Associate Professor Renea Taylor | Prostate cancer research group Prostate cancer research | Cancer; Development & Stem Cells; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Yan Wong | Yan Wong Laboratory Neurobionics - developing neural prostheses | Neuroscience |
| Dr Elizabeth Zavitz |
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Our education focussed academics
| Name | Area of research |
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| Dr Simone Carron | |
| Associate Professor Julia Choate | Work Integrated Learning (WIL), Embedding professional development in the curriculum, assessment |
| Dr Lucinda Krause | |
| Dr Michael Leung |