Professor Mark Febbraio is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, and the Head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory within the Drug Discovery Program at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Australia. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer of N-Gene Research Laboratories Inc, a USA-based Biotechnology Company.
His research is focused on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes, and his aim is to develop novel drugs to treat metabolic disease. Professor Febbraio has been awarded a number of prizes including the A K McIntyre Prize for significant contributions to Australian Physiological Science (1999), the Colin I Johnson Lectureship by the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia (2006) and the Sandford Skinner Oration (2011). He is on the Editorial Board of Diabetes, The American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology & Metabolism, and the Journal of Applied Physiology. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed papers in leading journals and has over 12,000 career citations.