Biography summary
Gunveen is a Senior Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at Deakin University. Her teaching interests include physiology, nutrition and lifestyle diseases. Gunveen is also a member of Deakin’s Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN). Her research is aimed at exploring the role of dietary fat in the prevention and management of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease at a clinical and molecular level.
Research interests
Role of dietary fat in the prevention and management of chronic diseases such as insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Teaching interests
Nutrition, metabolism and lifestyle diseases
Knowledge areas
Nutrition
Lipid metabolism
Insulin resistance
Cardiovascular disease
Skeletal muscle
Research groups
Biology of cardiovascular and metabolic health
Redox regulation of health and disease
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Does mitochondrial dysfunction impair muscle glucose metabolism?
Prof Clinton Bruce, Dr Greg Kowalski, Dr Gunveen Kaur
DART Grant - Research - Diabetes Australia - Victoria (Research Trust)
- 2015: $60,000
Home-based vascular therapy for improving exercise tolerance and glycaemia in type 2 diabetes
Prof Michelle Keske, Prof Glenn Wadley, Dr Andrew Betik, Dr Lewan Parker, Dr Gunveen Kaur
Diabetes Australia Research Program Grant
- 2022: $70,000
Does short-term high-calorie high-fat feeding impair skeletal muscle microvascular blood flow and increase the risk of pre-diabetes in humans?
Dr Gunveen Kaur, Prof Michelle Keske, Dr Andrew Betik, Dr Lewan Parker, Dr Barbara Vitorino Alencar Brayner
Diabetes Australia Research Program Grant
- 2022: $52,720
Supervisions
Barbara Vitorino Alencar Brayner
Thesis entitled: Dietary Patterns Based on Fat Type and Cardiometabolic Health
Doctor of Philosophy (Nutrition & Exercise) (Low Cost), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences