Position
Senior Research Assistant
Biography
Dr Vishal Diwan recently joined UQ’s Centre for Chronic Disease as a Senior Research Assistant. Vishal’s research interests have focused on kidney diseases and related cardiovascular complications. He completed his pharmacy and pharmacology training in India and in 2009 received an Australian government IPRS grant as an international student to pursue his PhD. He completed his PhD in Pharmacology in 2013 from the University of Queensland under the supervision of A/Prof. Glenda Gobe and Prof. Lindsay Brown. He has completed post-doctoral work at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Otago with A/Prof. Ivan Sammut and worked as a clinical pharmacy/pharmacology lecturer at the University of Otago’s School of Pharmacy. Vishal returned to Brisbane in 2016 to work for Queensland health before joining the Centre for Chronic Disease this year.
| Featured projects | Duration |
|---|---|
| Chronic Kidney Disease in Queensland (CKD.QLD Registry) | 2011 |
Book Chapters
Diwan, Vishal, Poudyal, Hemant and Brown, Lindsay (2012). Traditional Indian medicines for metabolic syndrome. Natural Products and Their Active Compounds on Disease Prevention. (pp. 1-21) New York, NY United States: Nova Science Publishers.
Diwan, Vishal, Poudyal, Hemant and Brown, Lindsay (2012). Traditional Indian medicine for metabolic syndrome, disease prevention and natural materials. Natural products and their active compounds on disease prevention. (pp. 1-21) edited by M. Mohamed Essa, A. Manickavasagan and E. Sukumar. New York, NY, United States: Nova Science Publishers.
Journal Articles
Diwan, Vishal, Hoy, Wendy E., Wang, Zaimin, Zhang, Jianzhen, Cameron, Anne, Venuthurupalli, Sree K., Fassett, Robert G., Chan, Samuel, Healy, Helen G., Tan, Ken-Soon, Baer, Richard, Mallett, Andrew J., Gray, Nicholas, Mantha, Murty, Cherian, Roy, Mutatiri, Clyson, Madhan, Krishan, Kan, George, Mitchell, Geoffrey, Hossain, Shahadat, Wu, Danielle, Han, Thin, Kark, Adrian, Titus, Thomas, Ranganathan, Dwarakanatan, Bonner, Ann, Govindarajulu, Sridevi and on behalf of the NHMRC CKD.CRE and the CKD.QLD Collaborative (2023). Hospitalizations among adults with CKD in public renal specialty practices: a retrospective study from Queensland, Australia. Kidney Medicine, 5 (9) 100700, 100700. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100700
Zhang, Jianzhen, Diwan, Vishal, Wang, Zaimin, Healy, Helen G., Venuthurupalli, Sree Krishna, Abeysekera, Rajitha and Hoy, Wendy E. (2023). The impact of anaemia on outcomes, admissions, and costs in patients with chronic kidney disease in two public nephrology practices in Queensland: A CKD.QLD Registry Study. International Journal of Nephrology, 2023 8720293, 1-11. doi: 10.1155/2023/8720293
Kumar, Hariom, Kulkarni, G. T., Diwan, Vishal and Sharma, Bhupesh (2023). Shielding effect of ryanodine receptor modulator in rat model of autism. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 14 (2), 247-262. doi: 10.32598/bcn.2021.2966.1
Kumar, Hariom, Diwan, Vishal and Sharma, Bhupesh (2022). Protective Effect of Nimodipine Against Valproic-acid Induced Biochemical and Behavioral Phenotypes of Autism. Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 20 (4), 725-736. doi: 10.9758/CPN.2022.20.4.725
Hoy, Wendy E., Wang, Zaimin, Zhang, Jianzhen, Diwan, Vishal, Cameron, Anne, Venuthurupalli, Sree K., Fassett, Robert G., Chan, Samuel, Healy, Helen G., Tan, Ken‐Soon, Baer, Richard, Mallett, Andrew J., Gray, Nicholas, Mantha, Murty, Cherian, Roy, Mutatiri, Clyson, Madhan, Krishan, Kan, George, Mitchell, Geoffrey, Hossain, Shahadat, Wu, Danielle, Han, Thin, Kark, Adrian, Titus, Thomas, Ranganathan, Dwarakanatan, Bonner, Ann, Govindarajulu, Sridevi and the NHMRC CKD. CRE and the CKD.QLD Collaborative. (2022). Chronic kidney disease in public renal practices in Queensland, Australia, 2011‐2018. Nephrology, 27 (12), 934-944. doi: 10.1111/nep.14111
Khan, Muhammad Ali, Nag, Purba, Grivei, Anca, Giuliani, Kurt T. K., Wang, Xiangju, Diwan, Vishal, Hoy, Wendy, Healy, Helen, Gobe, Glenda and Kassianos, Andrew J. (2022). Adenine overload induces ferroptosis in human primary proximal tubular epithelial cells. Cell Death and Disease, 13 (2) 104, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41419-022-04527-z
Kaur, Rajwinder, Sood, Ankita, Lang, Damanpreet Kaur, Arora, Rashmi, Kumar, Neeraj, Diwan, Vishal and Saini, Balraj (2022). Natural Products as Sources of Multitarget Compounds: Advances in the Development of Ferulic Acid as Multitarget Therapeutic. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 22 (5), 347-365. doi: 10.2174/1568026622666220117105740
Ellis, Robert J., Cameron, Anne, Gobe, Glenda C., Diwan, Vishal, Healy, Helen G., Lee, Jeremy, Tan, Ken-Soon, Venuthurupalli, Sree, Zhang, Jianzhen, Hoy, Wendy E. and the NHMRC CKD.CRE, the CKD.QLD Collaborative (2022). Kidney failure, CKD progression and mortality after nephrectomy. International Urology and Nephrology, 54 (9), 2239-2245. doi: 10.1007/s11255-022-03114-7
Kumar, Hariom, Diwan, Vishal and Sharma, Bhupesh (2022). Remediate Effect of Ryanodine Receptor Antagonist in Valproic-Acid Induced Autism. Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal, 15 (1), 59-71. doi: 10.13005/bpj/2343
Zhang, Jianzhen, Wang, Zaimin, Cameron, Anne, Sowa, P. Marcin, Diwan, Vishal, Venuthurupalli, Sree Krishna, Healy, Helen G., Connelly, Luke B. and Hoy, Wendy E. (2021). The CKD.QLD data linkage framework: chronic kidney disease and health services utilisation in Queensland, Australia. F1000Research, 10 1107, 1107. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.53782.1
Kaur, Rajwinder, Deb, Pran Kishore, Diwan, Vishal and Saini, Balraj (2021). Heparanase inhibitors in cancer progression: recent advances. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 27 (1), 43-68. doi: 10.2174/1381612826666201113105250
Sidhu, Akram, Diwan, Vishal, Kaur, Harsimran, Bhateja, Deepak, Singh, Charan K., Sharma, Saurabh and Padi, Satyanarayana S. V. (2018). Nicotinamide reverses behavioral impairments and provides neuroprotection in 3-nitropropionic acid induced animal model ofHuntington's disease: implication of oxidative stress- poly(ADP- ribose) polymerase pathway. Metabolic Brain Disease, 33 (6), 1911-1921. doi: 10.1007/s11011-018-0297-0
Diwan, Vishal, Brown, Lindsay and Gobe, Glenda C (2017). Adenine-induced chronic kidney disease in rats. Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.), 23 (1), 5-11. doi: 10.1111/nep.13180
Diwan, Vishal, Brown, Lindsay and Gobe, Glenda C. (2017). The flavonoid rutin improves kidney and heart structure and function in an adenine-induced rat model of chronic kidney disease. Journal of Functional Foods, 33, 85-93. doi: 10.1016/j.jff.2017.03.012
Diwan, Vishal, Small, David, Kauter, Kate, Gobe, Glenda C. and Brown, Lindsay (2014). Gender differences in adenine-induced chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular complications in rats. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology, 307 (11), F1169-F1178. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00676.2013
Diwan, Vishal, Gobe, Glenda and Brown, Lindsay (2014). Glibenclamide improves kidney and heart structure and function in the adenine-diet model of chronic kidney disease. Pharmacological Research, 79, 104-110. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2013.11.007
Diwan, Vishal, Mistry, Anand, Gobe, Glenda and Brown, Lindsay (2013). Adenine-induced chronic kidney and cardiovascular damage in rats. Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods, 68 (2), 197-207. doi: 10.1016/j.vascn.2013.05.006
Diwan, Vishal, Poudyal, Hemant and Brown, Lindsay (2012). Piperine attenuates cardiovascular, liver and metabolic changes in high carbohydrate, high fat-fed rats. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 67 (2), 297-304. doi: 10.1007/s12013-011-9306-1
Poudyal, Hemant, Panchal, Sunil K., Diwan, Vishal and Brown, Lindsay (2011). Omega-3 fatty acids and metabolic syndrome: Effects and emerging mechanisms of action. Progress in Lipid Research, 50 (4), 372-387. doi: 10.1016/j.plipres.2011.06.003
Panchal, S. K., Poudyal, H., Iyer, A., Nazer, R., Alam, A., Diwan, V., Kauter, K., Sernia, C., Campbell, F., Ward, L., Gobe, G., Fenning, A. and Brown, L. (2011). Erratum: High-carbohydrate, High-fat Diet–induced Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Remodeling in Rats. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 57 (5). doi: 10.1097/FJC.0b013e31821b1379
Panchal, Sunil K., Poudyal, Hemant, Iyer, Abishek, Nazer, Reeza, Alam, Ashraful, Diwan, Vishal, Kautner, Kathleen, Sernia, Conrad, Campbell, Fiona, Ward, Leigh, Gobe, Glenda, Fenning, Andrew and Brown, Lindsay (2011). High-carbohydrate, high-fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular remodeling in rats. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 57 (5), 611-624. doi: 10.1097/FJC.0b013e3181feb90a
Conference Papers
Doggrell, S., Field, C., Diwan, V. and Kairuz, T. (2012). Low adherence and understanding of medicines in the older-aged living in rental retirement villages. National Medicines Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 24 - 25 May 2012.
Diwan, V., Gobe, G. and Brown, L. (2011). Low dose adenine and chronic renal disease: Slow poison for kidneys. 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, Adelaide, SA Australia, 19-21 September 2011. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2011.01490.x
Thesis
Diwan, Vishal (2013). Pathophysiology and treatment of chronic kidney disease in rat models. PhD Thesis, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland.