Bio
Professor Herbert Herzog is Conjoint Professor at UNSW and currently holds a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Research Investigator (L3) grant.
Prof. Herzog studied Chemistry, switching to Biochemistry for his PhD, which he obtained from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 1989. In 1991, he moved to Sydney where he studies the role of NPY and other family members like PYY and pancreatic polypeptide, investigating the numerous different functions of these molecules in various physiological settings. He has published his findings on NPY and related neuropeptides in over 330 articles which are cited over 28,000 times.
Prof. Herzog’s current work focuses on determining the fundamental processes that can lead to the development of obesity, or the other extreme anorexia, especially investigating the brain's role in the regulation of eating behaviour, stress and glucose homeostasis. He is also interested in how homeostatic processes that regulate bodyweight are coordinated with other homeostatic processes in the body, like the one that controls bone and fat mass, and how these effects change with age.
