Professor Damien Keating
FHMRI Deputy Director
College of Medicine and Public Health
I am Deputy Director of the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) and Head of Molecular and Cellular Physiology research group. I undertook a post-doc with Prof. Thomas Jentsch at the ZMNH, Hamburg, Germany and was then awarded an independent research fellowship to move to the Hudson Institute in Melbourne. I was recruited to Flinders University through a BioInnovation SA Research Fellowship in 2006. In 2010, I was awarded both a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (Level 1) and an ARC Future Fellowship and then a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (Level 2) in 2015.
My research is focused on understanding how cells send chemical signals to each other and how this is implicated in health and disease. We have published significant work in this area in leading international journals including Nature, PNAS, PLoS Genetics, Molecular Psychiatry, Gastroenterology, Human Molecular Genetics, Journal of Neuroscience, Diabetes, Nature Communications and Cell Metabolism.
My lab webpage: Molecular and Cellular Physiology Laboratory
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0154-8305
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours, 1st class)
Ph.D. (Science) University of Adelaide - Department of Physiology
2004 TM Ramsay Postdoctoral Fellowship - Prince Henry's Institute
2006 Bio Innovation SA Neuroscience Research Fellowship - Flinders University
2007 NHMRC Project Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2009 ARC Discovery Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2010 ARC Future Fellowship
2010 NHMRC Career Development Award (Level 1)
2010 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University
2010 South Australian Young Tall Poppy Award
2010 NHMRC Project Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2012 Australian Society for Medical Research, South Australian Leading Light Award
2012 Associate Professor
2013 ARC Discovery Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2014 NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (Level 2)
2015 ARC Linkage Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2015 Professor
2018 NHMRC Project Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2018 ARC Discovery Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2019 NHMRC Project Grant (Chief Investigator A)
2019 Deputy Director, Flinders Health and Medical Research Intitute (FHMRI)
2021 NHMRC Project Grant (Chief Investigator A)
Best Student Oral Presentation, Australian Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Sydney 2010 - OCT 2012
People’s Choice Award, Flinders University Faculty of Health Sciences Student Research Prize Day - OCT 2012
Kathleen V. Russell Prize In Neurobiology, Flinders University Centre for Neuroscience - OCT 2012
Best Student Oral Presentation, Australian Physiology Society Annual Meeting, Sydney 2010 - OCT 2012
Australian Postgraduate Scholarship - OCT 2012
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