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Dr Jenny Gunton

 

Senior Research Fellow; Group leader, Immunology Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; Staff Specialist, Diabetes and Endocrinology 20% appointment, Westmead Hospital; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, The University of New South Wales; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney; Australian Diabetes Society Council Member

Email: j.gunton 'at' garvan.org.au
Research Group: Diabetes and Transcription Factors

 
 

Education

C.J. Martin Fellow, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Joslin Diabetes Center & Harvard Medical School
PhD, University of Sydney,
FRACP, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
MBBS, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery University of Queensland, QLD

Publications

Gunton JE, Kulkarni RN, Yim S, Okada T, Hawthorne WJ, Tseng YH, Roberson RS, Ricordi C, O'Connell PJ, Gonzalez FJ, Kahn CR. Loss of ARNT/HIF1beta mediates altered gene expression and pancreatic-islet dysfunction in human type 2 diabetes. Cell 2005; 122(3):337-49.

Gunton JE, Cheung NW, Hitchman R, Hams G, O'Sullivan C, Foster-Powell K, McElduff A. Chromium supplementation does not improve glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity, or lipid profile: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of supplementation in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance. Diabetes Care 2005; 28(3):712-3.

Gunton JE, Hams G, Hitchman R, McElduff A. Serum chromium does not predict glucose tolerance in late pregnancy. Am J Clin Nutr 2001; 73(1):99-104.

Gunton JE, Davies L, Wilmshurst E, Fulcher G, McElduff A. Cigarette smoking affects glycemic control in diabetes. Diabetes Care 2002; 25(4):796-7.

Gunton JE, McElduff A. Hemoglobinopathies and HbA(1c) measurement. Diabetes Care 2000; 23(8):1197-8.

Gunton JE, McElduff A, Sulway M, Stiel J, Kelso I, Boyce S, Fulcher G, Robinson B, Clifton-Bligh P, Wilmshurst E. Outcome of pregnancies complicated by pre-gestational diabetes mellitus. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 2000; 40(1):38-43.

Gunton JE, Hams G, Fiegert M, McElduff A. Iodine deficiency in ambulatory participants at a Sydney teaching hospital: is Australia truly iodine replete? Med J Aust 1999; 171(9):467-70.

Gunton JE, Stiel J, Caterson RJ, McElduff A. Anti-thyroid Drugs and Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Positive Vasculitis. A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1999; 88: 13-16


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Areas of Interest

Beta cells, pancreas, transcription factors, type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetes, islet transplantation, gene expression
 

News

 

Test Vitamin D levels in pregnant women say researchers

MEDIA RELEASE: 03 Apr 2011
Garvan clinical researchers have identified widespread Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women as well as a very strong association between low Vitamin D levels and gestational diabetes. In a retrospective study of 147 women from a gestational diabetes clinic at Westmead Hospital, 41% were shown to be Vitamin D deficient.
 
 

How fatness gets forecast in the womb

MEDIA RELEASE: 28 Jan 2011
Children born of mums with gestational diabetes will tend to become fat, say Garvan scientists, and the worse mum’s sugar levels during pregnancy, the fatter they will be.
 
 

Garvan Scientists acknowledged on World Diabetes Day

14 Nov 2010
Garvan diabetes research has been recognised by the Diabetes Australia Research Trust, which announced that several Garvan scientists would be receiving significant research support over the coming two years.
 
 

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