Associate Professor Karin Jandeleit-Dahm is a renal physician trained in Germany and a Senior Research Fellow and Laboratory Head at the Baker Heart Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians and a Senior Academic and Clinical member of the Department of Nephrology at the Alfred Hospital. She holds an honorary Associate Professorship in the Department of Medicine at Monash University and at the University of Hannover, Germany. Her main research interests are in diabetes-associated vascular complications and, in particular, diabetic nephropathy and cardiovascular disease. Her research is funded by national and international funding bodies (including JDRF and NIH) and is part of a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Research centre grant.
She has trained in both clinical and basic research and supervises a multidisciplinary team comprised of scientists, physicians, allied health workers and students, who engage in basic laboratory research, acute medicine, and chronic disease management and education in the area of diabetic vascular complications. In this context, she is Chair of the Student and Early Career Executive Committee at the Baker Institute.
Associate Professor Karin Jandeleit-Dahm has had numerous speaking invitations from learned societies and chairmanships both nationally and internationally. She has organized and chaired several national and international meetings. She is a member of the program organising committees of the Australian Diabetes Society and the International Society of Nephrology- Nexus meeting in Dublin in 2008, as well as a satellite meeting of the International Vascular Biology Meeting in Melbourne in 2008 and the Australian Atherosclerosis Society meeting in Melbourne in 2009. She serves on the National Clinical Advisory Committee for the Australian Atherosclerosis Society and the National Atacand Hypertension Advisory Board. She is a member of the National Heart Foundation Fellowship Committee for 2007-2010, Health Research Council of New Zealand and regular reviewer for the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
She has published over 70 publications in high impact factor journals including Circulation, Circulation Research, Kidney International, Hypertension and Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. She is reviewer for various national (National Heart Foundation of Australia, Diabetes Australia and National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia) as well as international granting bodies and journals in the area of Diabetes, Nephrology and Cardiovascular disease.