Mark A. Febbraio BASc, PhD

Prof Mark Febbraio is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC, is the Head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory and Head of the Diabetes and Metabolism Division at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer of N-Gene Research Laboratories Inc, a USA based Biotechnology Company.
His research is focused on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes, and his aim is to develop novel drugs to treat metabolic disease. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed papers in leading journals and has over 12,000 career citations.
Mark has won prizes at international, national and institutional levels, including the A K McIntyre Prize for significant contributions to Australian Physiological Science (1999), the Colin I Johnson Lectureship by the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia (2006) the ESA/ADS Joint Plenary Lecture (2009) and the Sandford Skinner Oration (2011).