ProfessorMichelle Keske

Professor Keske has been a dedicated researcher in the diabetes and
cardiovascular disease fields for the past 22 years. She is internationally
recognised for her contribution to the study of muscle microvascular blood
flow and her expertise in the development of techniques to assess
microvascular blood flow in vivo in humans and animals. Her research strongly
implicates microvascular dysfunction in skeletal muscle in the development of
insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and exercise intolerance.

She recieved her PhD from the Department of Biochemistry, University of
Tasmania in 2000. During her PhD she had the opportunity to work as a visiting
scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She completed 8 years
of international post-doctoral training at the University of Virginia,
National Institutes of Health and private industry in the USA. In 2007 she was
recruited from the USA to the Menzies Institute for Medical Research,
University of Tasmania to start an independent research group.

In 2017 she was recruited to Deakin University as part of a strategic research
investment by the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN). She
has opened a new program of research into cardiovascular medicine and the
establishment of the new research group 'Biology of Cardiovascular and
Metabolic Health'. She is now Deputy Director of IPAN.

Research Groups
Biology of cardiovascular and metabolic health

Redox regulation of health and disease

(https://ipan.deakin.edu.au/research/biology-of-health-and-disease/)