DrLewan Parker
Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
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- Senior Research FellowFaculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
- +61 3 924 68740 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research areas include: Exercise physiology, redox biology, glycaemic control, insulin resistance, bone metabolism, vascular health, and cardiometabolic disease.
GRANTS
- GRANTVCCC Skilled Internship with Grampians Health.19 Feb 2024 - 22 Nov 2024People funded by this grant:
- Keske M,
- Parker L,
- Wordie-Thompson EC
- GRANTAntioxidant deficiency screening and personalised antioxidant prescription as an accessible and cost-effective treatment for cardiovascular dysfunction and insulin resistance1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025People funded by this grant:
- Parker L,
- Keske M,
- Marwick T,
- Nikolaidis M
- GRANTDoes short-term high-calorie high-fat feeding impair skeletal muscle microvascular blood flow and increase the risk of pre-diabetes in humans?1 Jan 2022 - 30 Jun 2023People funded by this grant:
- Kaur G,
- Keske M,
- Betik A,
- Parker L,
- Brayner BVA
- GRANTOral glucose tolerance test causes acute skeletal muscle microvascular insulin resistance in healthy people: determining the gut-derived factors that underpin microvascular impairments1 Apr 2021 - 31 Mar 2022People funded by this grant:
- Keske M,
- Roberts-Thomson K,
- Parker L
- GRANTNovel therapy for improving exercise tolerance and glycaemic regulation in type 2 diabetes associated HFpEF1 Jan 2020 - 31 Mar 2025People funded by this grant:
- Keske M,
- Parker L,
- Maddison R,
- Marwick T
- FELLOWSHIPExercise intolerance and impaired glycaemic control in heart failure patients: Identifying microvascular dysfunction as a novel mechanism1 Jul 2019 - 29 Feb 2024People funded by this grant:
- Lewan Parker