Ann Simpson
Professor
Centre for Health Technologies
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
Professor Simpson joined the staff at UTS in 1994 and since 2002 has held the position of Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Medical & Molecular Biosciences and since July 2009 has been Head of that Department. She has also been Director of the Research Centre for Health Technologies since 2006. Prior to coming to UTS she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales.
Research Interest
The group is approaching this problem from 2 main directions: 1. The use of human liver cell lines that store and secrete insulin to glucose, which could be used to correct diabetes via transplantation of the encapsulated cells into patients, and 2. Direct delivery of the insulin gene and other components directly to the liver of patients to induce them to store mature insulin and secrete it in a physiological manner.
