Associate Professor Lois Balmer is a educator and researcher in the School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Australia, in the discipline of Medical Sciences. She is a member of the Centre for Precision Health. Her research focuses on genetics, complications of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, and suboptimal health, and includes animal models of disease.
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Medical and Health Science
Vice Chancellor Teaching Award
Edith Cowan University
For encouraging students to extend their learning journey outside the laboratory and lecture theatre, exposing them through industry-based learning, to a realistic appreciation of the lived experience of the suffered of genetic diseases. My students have been inspired and motivated be learning in a social context.