Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District researchers Professor Ralph Nanan and Dr Kathryn Williams have been awarded grants from the Charles Perkins Centre Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund in its inaugural round.
Professor Ralph Nanan's research will explore the link between chronic inflammation and environmental factors
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District researchers Professor Ralph Nanan and Dr Kathryn Williams have been awarded grants from the Charles Perkins Centre Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund in its inaugural round.
The Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund was established from the Jennie Mackenzie Bequest, one of the largest individual donations to the University of Sydney.
The bequest was made to support the Centre's research, education and clinical work in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related conditions.
Under two separately funded projects, our researchers were awarded amongst eight inter-disciplinary research projects that demonstrate world-class, collaborative research.
A project co-lead by Dr Kathryn Williams, Clinical Lead and Manager of the Nepean Blue Mountains Family Metabolic Health Service, will develop a clinical research platform for the comprehensive study of people with severe and complicated obesity. The research team will establish a longitudinal cohort and platform of people with severe and complicated obesity, provide a well-characterised population for clinical trials and inform effective policy and health planning in obesity.
Dr Kathryn Williams will examine obesity across the lifespan
In partnership with colleagues at the University of Sydney, Professor Ralph Nanan, Chair and Professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Director of Children's Health at Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, will seek to understand the link between chronic inflammation and the sum of all environmental factors. The project will compare people from common genetic backgrounds living exposed to various degrees of westernisation in the Pacific Islands of Vanuatu.
Congratulations to both researchers. Their projects represent world-class research, training and clinical collaboration, supporting excellence in finding solutions to obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
