Cholesterol proves healthy for medal winner

Dr Sandra Orgeig with a bearded lizard, one of the many species that increases its cholesterol due to a drop in body temperature.

Dr Sandra Orgeig with a bearded lizard, one of the many species that increases its cholesterol due to a drop in body temperature.
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Monday, 29 April 2002

Dr Sandra Orgeig from the University of 亚洲色吧 will this week receive the prestigious Fenner Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra.

The Fenner Medal recognises distinguished research in plants and non- mammalian animals by Australian scientists under the age of 40. Dr Orgeig, from the University's Department of Environmental Biology, will receive the medal and present a talk on her research at the Shine Dome in Canberra on Thursday, May 2.

For the past 10 years Dr Orgeig has been researching the crucial role that cholesterol plays in the h