Dawn Livingstone
Academic Track Lecturer
- Centre for Cardiovascular Science
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 242 6742
- Email: Dawn.Livingstone@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Queens Medical Research Institute
Edinburgh Bioquarter
47 Little France Crescent - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4TJ
Research summary
Steroid hormones have potent effects on fuel metabolism, body fat distribution and behaviour. My research focusses on the ways in which these actions are “fine-tuned” by pre-receptor metabolism within target tissues, and how this can alter susceptibility to the development of obesity and diabetes. Through these studies we have also identified a steroid hormone metabolite that has potential for development as a selective glucocorticoid receptor modulator for use in the treatment of inflammation. http://www.ed.ac.uk/integrative-physiology/staff-profiles/research-group...