Winthrop Professor Daniel Green
Research Profile
Utilising transdisciplinary research partnerships between science, engineering and medicine, Professor Daniel Green’s group aims to invent ways to detect incipient cardiovascular disease at the earliest possible stage, to identify and optimise lifestyle interventions to prevent clinical manifestation of chronic diseases in humans, and to develop personalised, targeted and evidence-based interventions to optimise disease prevention.

His research encompasses the lifespan; from prevention of the development of atherosclerosis in obese and diabetic children and adolescents, to research on the best combination of exercise and medications in the management of patients with hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, coronary disease and heart failure patients awaiting transplantation.
Current areas of research include the effects of exercise on arteries supplying the brain, in the context of prevention of cognitive decline; testosterone and exercise in older men in relation to cardiovascular and stroke risk; platelet function, exercise and cardiovascular risk; and how exercise and breaking up sitting time could benefit brain and cardiovascular function.
Many of these studies benefit from specific technologies invented and developed by Danny and his research team, including detailed analysis techniques for blood flow effects on the arterial wall.
He has established a Cardiovascular Research Group, with a busy, dedicated laboratory and a diverse team of postdoctoral and graduate students and staff from Australia, Europe and North America.