Dr Robert Gianello

Research Fellow

Telephone: +61 - 3 9905 5325 Facsimile: +61 - 3 9902 9500 Email: Robert.Gianello@med.monash.edu.au

Research Interest:

1. Design and synthesis of novel anti-obesity and anti-diabetic peptide analogues related to human growth hormone, and their study in vitro and in vivo.
2. Development of insulin derivatives with increased potency and prolonged bioavailability.
3. Studies of anti-obesity agents of phytochemical origin.
4. Characterisation of genes conferring complete desiccation tolerance in plants

Recent Publications

1. Kuang J, Gaff DF, Gianello RD, Blomstedt CK, Neale AD and Hamill JD. (1995). Changes in in vivo protein complements in drying leaves of the desiccation-tolerant grass Sporobolus stapfianus and the desiccation-sensitive grass Sporobolus pyramidalis. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 22, 1027-1034.
   
   
2. Pinczower GD, Williams RPW, Gianello RD, Robinson HC, Preston BN and Linnane AW. (1996). Characterisation of the tumour-associated carbohydrate epitope recognised by monoclonal antibody 4D3. Int. J. Cancer 66, 636-644.