The role of the NPY system in health and disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1019734

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Obesity-associated diseases are a major health problem and treatments are ineffective. My team’s focus is to determine how a brain molecule called neuropeptide Y (NPY) controls appetite and body fat mass and how this is changed in obesity or in the other extreme, anorexia, which is common in late stage cancer. We will use genetically modified mouse models and investigate the role of NPY under different stress conditions and in cancer. This will tell us if targeting this NPY system with drugs may provide a treatment for these diseases.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Research Fellowships

Funding Amount: $739,893.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

appetite regulation | energy metabolism | neuropeptide Y (NPY) | obesity | transgenic mouse

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