How your brain knows you've eaten too much?

Curtin University's School of Science

would like to invite you to a special

National Science Week event

High school lecture by Professor Michael Cowley  

National Science Week National Speaker

Professor Michael Cowley is an internationally recognised physiologist with a strong focus on developing drugs to beat obesity, diabetes and metabolic disorders.

Professor Cowley returned to Australia in 2008 to take up the position of Director at Monash Obesity and Diabetes Institute. With over 15 years experience in research and biopharmaceutical drug development, Professor Cowley was the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Orexigen Therapeutics, raising US$ 255M to fund a drug development program.

Professor Cowley’s laboratory provided the source intellectual property and was the inventor of three of the four drugs under development, including Contrave®, an investigational medicine that is currently awaiting FDA approval for the treatment of obesity following its successful completion of Phase III trials.

In this talk Dr Cowley will highlight how the brain detects how much food you have in your stomach, and how the brain detects how much fat you have in your body. The talk will describe the role of hormones and how they are carried in the blood stream and nervous system from the stomach.

This is a rare opportunity for keen high school students to hear from one of Australia's top scientists.

Audience: High school science students

Date: 19 August 2011

Time: 10.30 to 11.30am

Location: Curtin University. Resources and Chemistry Precinct, Building 500 Room 1102AB

Cost: Free plus a limited number of $100 transport subsidies available to schools (via redemption from Scitech)

To book tickets visit http://nswkschoolscurtin2011.eventbrite.com 

Questions? contact the Curtin Science Outreach Coordinator on (08) 9266 1021