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Position
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Head of Department of Medicine (Dunedin), Consultant Endocrinologist, Director, Endocrinology Research Group
Department
Department of Medicine (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BHB MB ChB MMedSci FRACP
Research summary
Endocrinology and diabetes.

Research

The Endocrinology Research Group's major focus relates to clinical trials in all areas of endocrinology including diabetes, general endocrinology, and metabolism. A key area of research focus is the link between obesity and insulin resistance.

The group has published widely on the effect of meal composition on postprandial inflammation and is involved in clinical trials in obesity, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis.

The group consists of Prof Patrick Manning, Dr Wayne Sutherland, Dr Ted Nye, and is assisted by three research nurses (Anne Ryalls, Liz Berry and Gavin Hendry). In addition the group has collaborative projects with other members of the Department of Medicine, as well as other researchers both nationally and internationally.

Opportunities

If you have research interest in clinical endocrinology including diabetes and/or obesity and have either a tertiary science degree or a medical degree then feel free to make contact with Prof Patrick Manning to find out if there are any current research opportunities available within the research group.

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Publications

Yue, Y., Katare, R., Deng, J., Alencar da Costa, D., & Manning, P. (2026). Circulating microRNA signatures reveal core and reversible dysregulation in obesity via machine learning. Journal of Physiology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1113/jp290345 Journal - Research Article

Yue, Y., Manning, P., De Ridder, D., Hall, M., Adhia, D. B., Ross, S., Alencar da Costa, D., & Deng, J. D. (2026). Machine learning-based identification of abnormal functional connectivity in obesity across different metabolic states. Communications Medicine, 6, 241. doi: 10.1038/s43856-026-01518-5 Journal - Research Article

Green, L., Simpson, M., Bahri, A., Fong, A., & Manning, P. (2025). A pituitary macroadenoma cosecreting prolactin and growth hormone in a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 4. JCEM Case Reports, 3, luaf124. doi: 10.1210/jcemcr/luaf124 Journal - Research Other

Yue, Y., De Ridder, D., Manning, P., & Deng, J. D. (2025). Variational autoencoder learns better feature representations for EEG-based obesity classification. In A. Antonacopoulos, S. Chaudhuri, R. Chellappa, C.-L. Liu, S. Bhattacharya & U. Pal (Eds.), Pattern Recognition: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 15323). (pp. 179-191). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-78347-0_12 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Herath, B., Roberts, L., Manning, P., & Katare, R. (2024, August-September). Salivary microRNAs as biomarkers for diabetes mellitus and related cardiovascular disease. Poster session presented at the 18th New Zealand Medical Sciences Congress (MedSci), Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

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