Lindsay Wu Australian Diabetes Society and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2014

Lindsay Wu

A/Prof. Lindsay Wu is a metabolic biochemist whose lab studies the molecular and metabolic mechanisms that underlie biological ageing, with a focus on applications for female fertility. A key interest for the lab is the role of altered metabolism as a cause of reproductive ageing, including unexpected mechanisms for the biosynthesis of the redox cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). His group previously showed that declining levels of this cofactor are a reversible cause of reproductive ageing in mice, resulting in an undergoing a prospective clinical trial in IVF patients, and other ongoing research includes its applications in chemotherapy induced infertility and late-life female health. He is an is an American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) / Hevolution Investigator, and leads an active research team at UNSW Sydney.