Melanie White, PhD
Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow
School of Medicine
The University of Sydney
Biography
Dr. Melanie White is a member of the Charles Perkins Society, a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow and teaches senior students in the discipline of Pathology at the University of Sydney School of Medicine. Her research interests include understanding more about how cells adapt to their changing environment by altering proteins using post-translational modifications. Her and her team’s work centers on asking these questions in clinically relevant models of myocardial ischemia (heart attack), type 2 diabetes and obesity.