Dr Magda Montgomery

Dr Magda Montgomery is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology (University of Melbourne), previous NHMRC ECF and NHMRC CDF, and leads one of four major programs in the School of Biomedical Sciences, the Metabolism Program. Dr Montgomery leads an innovative research program aimed at understanding how defects in lipid metabolism and the endocrine function of the liver drive progression of liver disease and type 2 diabetes. Dr Montgomery received her PhD at the University of Wollongong in 2011, and her postdoctoral training in the area of obesity, insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, at the University of New South Wales, and at Monash University. In 2018, Dr Montgomery moved to the University of Melbourne, where she is currently investigating links between perturbations in liver homeostasis and the development of type 2 diabetes.