Gregory Cooney

Biography

Greg Cooney completed his PhD at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney in 1980 and from 1980 to 1984 worked as a Departmental Demonstrator in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. There he developed an interest in the role of thermogenic brown adipose tissue in energy balance and the development of obesity. Greg returned to Sydney in 1985 to work in the Department of Endocrinology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on the biochemical mechanisms involved in the development of obesity and insulin resistance. He joined the Diabetes Group at the Garvan Institute in 1997 to continue examination of the links between obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Greg is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is an author on more that 140 original papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals dealing with mechanisms of obesity-induced insulin resistance. He has been a Senior Editor for the Journal of Endocrinology, has served as an Associate Editor and on the Advisory Board of the journal Diabetologia and is a member of the Editorial Board of Diabetes and the American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism. Greg has served on the Council of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity acting as Honorary Treasurer of the Society. He has also been a councillor, Treasurer and Vice President of the Australian Diabetes Society.

Research Interest

Obesity and insulin action Glucose and fat metabolism Muscle metabolism Circadian rhythms and metabolism