Melinda T Coughlan Australian Diabetes Society and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2016

Melinda T Coughlan

Professor Melinda Coughlan is a biomedical and nutrition scientist at Monash University, where she leads the Glycation, Nutrition and Metabolism Laboratory in the School of Translational Medicine. She is a Registered Nutrition Scientist with the Nutrition Society of Australia and has more than 20 years’ experience investigating the metabolic complications of diabetes and obesity. Her research focuses on understanding how nutrition and metabolism influence kidney health, with particular interests in the gut–kidney axis, intestinal barrier function, dietary advanced glycation end products, the microbiome, mitochondrial metabolism and inflammation. Her work spans fundamental discovery through to human translational research, with the aim of identifying new strategies to prevent and treat diabetes complications. Melinda has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and has attracted over $12 million in competitive research funding. She is a Director of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology and an Associate Editor at Science Advances. She has served on the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee of Nutrition. She is also committed to mentoring emerging researchers and strengthening career pathways for discovery and nutrition scientists.