Associate Professor Dorit Samocha-Bonet

Samocha-Bonet is Group leader, Clinical Insulin Resistance at the Healthy Ageing Theme at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences UNSW. Samocha-Bonet completed a BSc degree (Cum Laude) in Nutritional Sciences at the Hebrew University, Israel and joined the Nutrition & Dietetics Department at Tel Aviv Medical Centre as a clinical dietician where she worked for a decade (1993-2003). She completed MSc degree (with Honours) in Clinical Biochemistry (1996) and PhD in Physiology & Pharmacology (2006) at Tel Aviv University, Israel prior to relocating to Sydney. She joined the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2013 she established the Clinical Insulin Resistance Group with a focus on exploring the metabolic factors underlying insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity in obesity and on developing approaches to promoting insulin sensitivity in obesity. She has been the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) Skip Martin Early Career Fellow in 2011, and the recipient of the top ranked project grant from the Diabetes Australia Research Program in 2016.