Professor Jonathan Gleadle

Jonathan Gleadle is a Consultant Nephrologist at Flinders Medical Centre and Professor of Medicine at Flinders University and is continuing to pursue his activities in clinical medicine, teaching and research.  For the preceeding five years he was the University Lecturer in Nephrology and General Medicine at Oxford University.  He is currently heading an independent Research Group at Flinders focusing on the regulation of gene expression and microRNAs by oxygen and its implications for renal disease and renal cancer.  His research interests have focussed on the sensing of oxygen by cells; a topic with broad relevance to the understanding of cellular physiology, ischaemic disease and cancer.