Professor Nigel Turner

Professor Nigel Turner is head of the Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. He completed a PhD in comparative physiology and biochemistry at the University of Wollongong and undertook postdoctoral studies in the area of mitochondrial metabolism and insulin action in the Diabetes and Metabolism Division at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney.

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From 2012-2021 he was head of the Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Laboratory in the School of Medical Sciences at UNSW Sydney and in 2022 established his current research group at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Nigel’s research focuses on investigating factors that regulate mitochondrial function and cellular bioenergetics in healthy and diseased states. In particular, his research group employs advanced techniques and experimental models to provide insight into how aberrations in cellular energy metabolism may contribute to the pathogenesis of conditions including diabetes, cardiometabolic disease and cancer.