Rajesh Chaudhary

Biography

I am currently a PhD student at SAHMRI through The University of Adelaide. And, my principle supervisor is A/Prof. Leonie Heilbronn. Our group, Diabetes and Metabolism, is currently involved in looking into the effects of timing of nutrition and food intake and type of diet and its overall impact on health -- particularly, on obesity and diabetes.Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has affected more than 400 million people around the world by 2012, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Australia is not spared of this -- almost 1 in 6 Australians are suffering from the T2DM and it is costing approximately more than a billion dollar every year to the Australian government to contain it and treat those who are suffering. Out of several process that feeds into the process of development and progression of T2DM, Autophagy is one of those. Autophagy is basically a cellular process that functions as a housekeeping for a cell besides energy homeostasis and protein recycling and removing the unwanted and denatured proteins. In general term, it is explained as a cellular self-eating process where it eats up the cellular organelles such as misfolded proteins, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes etc and generate energy required by the cell specially during the stress conditions, specifically, nutrient deprivation, starvation, hypoxia et cetra.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc