Mark Vickers

Dr Mark H. Vickers  BSc, COP, MSc(Hons), PhD

 

• NRCGD Project Leader

• Senior Research Fellow, The Liggins Institute

 

NRCGD Project: Click here for details

 

 

Biography

 

After doing a BSc in geography, Dr Mark Vickers worked for several years in biomedical research laboratories in New Zealand and Germany and then returned to Auckland to do his MSc in paediatrics. His subsequent PhD studies showed that fetal undernutrition dysregulates the feedback loop between insulin and the obesity hormone leptin in adult life, and has consequences as far reaching as reduced activity levels. He has identified strategies to correct this dysregulation. Mark is now investigating the phenomenon more deeply, and aims to pinpoint the precise mechanisms driving the dysregulated hormonal loops. He won the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2006 Hamilton Memorial Prize for his work in this area.

 

 

Contact details

 

The Liggins Institute

The University of Auckland

Private Bag 92019

Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Email m.vickers <at> auckland.ac.nz; Phone +64 9 9236687

 

 

 

 

 

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