Dr Vanu Gulati
Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law; School of Science and Technology
Biography
Dr Gulati is a senior lecturer in Biomedical Sciences and joined University of New England in 2019. Prior to this Dr Gulati worked as a senior lecturer in Nutritional Medicine and as a specialist for Nutritional Biochemistry and Nutritional Physiology Research at Endeavour College of Natural Health. Dr Gulati possesses more than twelve years of experience in tertiary education in Australia in Biomedical Science, Nutrition, Naturopathy, and Biotechnology due to her multi-disciplinary qualification and experience. Dr Gulati finished her PhD in Life Sciences from Swinburne University of Technology in 2013 and investigated Aboriginal Australian plants for the management of type 2 diabetes. Dr Gulati worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Microbiology and identified specific phenotypic biomarkers in persistent strains of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from the food-manufacturing environment. Dr Gulati possesses more than seventeen years of research experience in complementary therapies with focus on investigating the role of plant extracts in management of diabetes and obesity. She gained an experience in the fields of herbal medicines, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, in vitro pharmacology, cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology and evidence-based medicine. Before moving to Australia, she worked in Pharmaceutical Research in India for four years in phyto-pharmacology and phyto-chemistry of traditional plants of India. She has an interest in nutrition, complementary and integrative therapies. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. She is a reviewer of many reputed journals in the field of nutrition, complementary therapies, food technology, pharmacology and phytochemistry.
