Associate ProfessorSonia Saad
Associate Professor in Northern Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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- Associate Professor in Northern Clinical SchoolFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
Prof Saad's primary research focus is in the area of metabolic disease and microvascular/ macrovascular complications of diabetes, including nephropathy and endothelial dysfunction and maternal programming and its effect on offspring predisposition to chronic kidney disease.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTAssessing urinary tubular cells in chronic kidney disease by deep learning early diagnostics without kidney biopsy.Diabetes Australia1 Jan 2022People funded by this grant:
- Saad S,
- Pollock C
- GRANTEpredia CryoStar NX70 Cryostat 220-240V, 50HzNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2022People funded by this grant:
- Saad S,
- Figtree GA,
- Aubrey K
- GRANTAnalysis of extracellular matrix dynamics in renal fibrosis: towards discovering new therapeutic targets and biomarkersHealth Administration Corporation6 May 2020People funded by this grant:
- Saad S,
- Pollock C
- GRANTA novel diagnostic method to determine the likelihood of kidney fibrosis and progressive CKD in patients with diabetes mellitus and other forms of chronic proteinuric renal diseaseNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
- GRANTSpecialized dietary intervention in human type 1 diabetesJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - JDRF (Australia)1 Jan 2018People funded by this grant:
- Marino E,
- Bell K,
- Saad S
- GRANTCDIP Industry & Community Engagement Fund 2016 - USYD and Gratuk Technologies Pty. Ltd - SONIA SAADDVC Research1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Saad S,
- Pollock C
- GRANTNovel treatment for kidney disease related to dietary obesity and maternal obesityRebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Saad S
- GRANTPredicting the future risk of chronic kidney disease in offspring of obese mothers with and without type 2 diabetesDiabetes Australia1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Pollock C,
- Chen H,
- Saad S,
- Stirzaker C
- GRANTImpact of maternal obesity on the development of chronic kidney disease in offspringSydney Medical School1 Aug 2016People funded by this grant:
- Saad S
- GRANTThe Role of SIRT1 in maternal obesity induced chronic kidney disease in the offspringSydney Medical School1 Aug 2016People funded by this grant:
- Saad S
- GRANTImpact of maternal obesity on susceptibility to diabetic nephropathyDiabetes Australia Research Trust (DART)1 Jan 2015People funded by this grant:
- Saad S,
- Pollock C
- GRANTDistinct ligands of PPARg mediate divergent inflammatory and fibrotic effects in endolthelium and proximal tubuleRamsay Health Care1 Jan 2010People funded by this grant:
- Saad S,
- Pollock C
- GRANTThe role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma in sodium transport in human proximal tubule cellsNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2009People funded by this grant:
- Pollock C,
- Saad S
- GRANTRenal disorders induced by maternal obesityKolling FoundationPeople funded by this grant:
- Saad S