Rate My Professor Lauren Wendt

Dr. Lauren Wendt serves as a Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at Griffith University, part of Griffith Health. She earned her PhD in Molecular Cardiology from Griffith University between 2013 and 2017, with a doctoral thesis entitled "Effects of DRP-1 Inhibitors in Healthy and Diseased Myocardium," supervised by Professor John Headrick. Her undergraduate qualification is a Bachelor of Exercise Science with Honours (BExSc Hons). Wendt's academic foundation lies in exercise science and cardiovascular physiology, areas that inform her ongoing scholarly pursuits.

Wendt maintains key interests in cardiovascular and metabolic research, with particular emphasis on molecular cardiology and therapeutic drug targets. Her investigations cover mitochondrial fission, stress signaling in cardiac myocytes, dietary influences on metabolic homeostasis and mood, and pharmacological effects on ischemic tolerance in obese models. Select publications encompass "Effects of Polyphenol Supplementations on Improving Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life in Patients With Depression" (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021, cited 52 times); "Synergistic effects of low-level stress and a Western diet on metabolic homeostasis, mood and myocardial ischemic tolerance" (American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 2020); "Complex Effects of Putative DRP-1 Inhibitors on Stress Responses in Mouse Heart and Rat Cardiomyoblasts" (Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 2020, cited 12 times); "Pravastatin improves risk factors but not ischaemic tolerance in obese rats" (European Journal of Pharmacology, 2018, cited 11 times); and "‘Face-to-Face vs. Flipped’: A Comparative Study on Academic Outcomes and Learning Preferences in First Year Allied Health Students Undertaking Anatomy and Physiology" (Seventh International Conference on Higher Education Advances, 2021). Her body of work has accumulated over 100 citations on Google Scholar. In education, she is the course convenor for foundation-year units Human Anatomy and Physiology Systems 1 (1016MSC) and Anatomy and Physiology Systems 2 (1017MSC), aligning with her special interest in all areas of Human Anatomy. She is affiliated with the Hearts, Minds and Bodies Research Group.