Biography

Kerry-Anne Rye obtained her PhD from Flinders University of South Australia in 1986 and gained her postdoctoral training at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a Research Professor, Head of the Cardiometabolic Disease Research Group and Deputy Head (Research) in the School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lipid Research, an Editorial Board Member of the American Heart Association journal, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) and the Senior Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Heart Association  Professor Rye is the Immediate-Past Chair of the American Heart Association ATVB Council and Chair of the American Heart Association ATVB Council Nominations Committee.

Research Program

Professor Rye co-leads the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease group with Associate Professor Shane Thomas. The overarching goal of Professor Rye's research program is to improve understanding of the causes of heart disease (atherosclerosis) and diabetes and to develop novel strategies for  treating both diseases. Professor Rye studies signal transduction pathways in multiple cell types (macrophages and endothelial cells for heart disease and pancreatic beta cells and skeletal muscle cells for diabetes) and works with novel animal models and state-of-the-art imaging techniques to identify new therapeutic targets for atherosclerosis and diabetes. She was the first to report that the atheroprotective high density lipoproteins (HDLs) in human plasma inhibit inflammation in coronary arteries, and that HDLs also have anti-diabetic properties.

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Kwok Leung Ong

Elias Glaros

Blake Cochran

Jaqueline Ku

Ben Wu

Carmen Zhang

Current PhD Students

Thomas King

Samson Ogumodede

Current MSc Students

Dr Liam Guiney

Current Honours Students

Claudia Fanuli

Vaishnavi Ratnasabesar

Deanne Do Rosario

Fatima El-Najjar

William Tucker

Research Opportunities

There are opportunities for Honours, MSc and PhD students in the Rye Group research program. Contact Kerry-Anne Rye (k.rye@unsw.edu.au) for details of specific projects.