Dr Graham Rena first became interested in biology related to diabetes during undergraduate BSc studies at University of Bristol. This was followed by Ph.D. studies with Professor Miles Houslay FRSE at the University of Glasgow and postdoctoral work with Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS, FRSE at the University of Dundee. Graham was a Caledonian Research Foundation Fellow between 2004 and 2007 before staying on to take up a permanent lectureship at the University of Dundee. Graham also enjoys teaching and is currently Programme Director of an innovative new blended learning MSc that is being developed as a joint initiative of the University of Dundee and the Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait.

Cameron, A.R. Morrison, V.L. Levin, D., Mohan, M., Forteath, C., Beall, C., McNeilly, A.D., Balfour, D.J.K., Savinko, T., Wong, A.K.F., Viollet, B., Sakamoto, K., Fagerholm, S.C., Foretz, M. Lang, C.C. and Rena, G. (2016) Circ. Res. 119, 642-655 Anti-inflammatory effects of metformin irrespective of diabetes status.High Attention Score- in the top 1% compared to outputs of the same age and source.Winner- Best Manuscript Award 2016 Cameron, A.R., Logie, L., Patel, K., Bacon, S., Forteath, C., Harthill, J., Roberts, A., Sutherland, C., Stewart, D., Viollet, B., Sakamoto, K., McDougall, G., Foretz, M., Rena, G. (2016) Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease 1862, 1412–1422. Quan, X., Uddin, R., Heiskanen, A., Parmvi, M. Nilson, K., Donolato, M. Hansen, M.F., Rena, G., Boisen, A. (2015) The copper binding properties of metformin – QCM-D, XPS and nanobead agglomeration. Chem. Commun.,51, 17313-17316 Repi??ák, P. Erhardt, S. Rena, G. Paterson, M. J.; The Bio-Molecular Mode of Action of Metformin in Relation to its Copper Binding Properties (2014) Biochemistry, 2014, 53, 787-795. Rena, G. Pearson E.R. and Sakamoto K. (2013) Molecular Mechanism of Action of Metformin: Old or New Insights? Diabetologia 2013 56, 1898-1906 Logie, L., Harthill, J., Patel, K., Bacon, S. Hamilton, D.L., Macrae, K., McDougall, G., Wang, H-H, Xue, L., Jiang, H., Sakamoto, K., Prescott, A.R., Rena, G. Cellular responses to the metal-binding properties of metformin. (2012) Diabetes, 61 1423-1437. Rena, G. Rena, G. Pearson E.R. and Sakamoto K. (2012) Molecular action and pharmacogenetics of metformin, Diabetes Management 2, 439-452 Cameron, A. R., Wallace, K., Logie, L., Prescott, A.R., Unterman, T.G., Harthill, J., Rena, G.The antineurodegenerative agent clioquinol regulates the transcription factor FOXO1a (2012) Biochem J. 443 57-64