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Theme lead: Professor Sadaf Farooqi

Sadaf Farooqi is Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

She is an internationally leading Clinician Scientist who has made seminal contributions to understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms that underlie obesity and its complications.

The work of Sadaf Farooqi and her colleagues has fundamentally changed our understanding of how body weight is regulated. With colleagues, she discovered and characterised the first genetic disorders that cause severe childhood obesity and established that the principal driver of obesity in these conditions was a failure of the control of appetite.

Her work is often cited as an exemplar of how the translation of research into the mechanisms of disease can lead to patient benefit. Her research has informed the development of diagnostic tests and new treatments for people living with obesity. She has received a number of awards for her research. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her contribution to science.

Contact: isf20@medschl.cam.ac.uk

A photo of Nita Forouhi, Nutrition, Obesity, Metabolism and Endocrinology co-Theme lead. Professor Nita Forouhi"

Theme co-lead: Professor Nita Forouhi

Nita is Director of Organisational Affairs for the School of Clinical Medicine and NIHR Senior Investigator, and works at the MRC Epidemiology Unit where she leads a research group in nutritional epidemiology. Her research interests are focused on finding modifiable factors for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and related metabolic disorders, and the links between diet, nutrition and the development of diabetes, obesity and cardio-metabolic disease.

Contact: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Mike Allison

Consultant Hepatologist

Contact: michael.allison@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

Soren Brage

Programme Leader and MRC Investigator

Contact: soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Ruth Casey

Consultant Endocrinologist

Contact: rcd674@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Krishna Chatterjee FRS

Director, NIHR CCRC, Professor, Endocrinology Inherited thyroid disorders

Contact: kkc1@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Tony Coll

Associate Professor, MRC Investigator

Contact: apc36@cam.ac.uk

Mark Evans

Professor, Diabetic Medicine and PPIE champion Diabetes

Contact: mle24@cam.ac.uk

Fiona Gribble

Professor, Endocrine Physiology Peptidomics

Contact: fmg23@cam.ac.uk

Simon Griffin

Professor, General Practice Diabetes prevention

Contact: ProfGP@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Mark Gurnell

Professor, Clinical Endocrinology, Training champion Molecular imaging and endocrine tumours

Contact: mg299@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Roman Hovorka

Professor, Metabolic Technology Artificial pancreas, diabetes treatment

Contact: rh347@cam.ac.uk

Albert Koulman

Scientific Director of the NIHR BRC Metabolomics and Lipidomics Facility Nutritional biomarkers

Contact: ak675@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Claudia Langenberg

MRC Investigator Diabetes and related molecular disorders in later life

Contact: Claudia.Langenberg@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Claire Meek

Investigator Gestational diabetes

Contact: clm70@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Ken Ong

Professor, Paediatric Endocrinology, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator Paediatric endocrinology

Contact: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Stephen O’Rahilly FRS

Co-director, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science Inherited metabolic disorders

Contact: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk

John Perry

Professor, Molecular Endocrinology, Chair of Molecular Endocrinology, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science Childhood growth, puberty

Contact: john.perry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Ken Poole

HEFCE Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Bone Disease and Rheumatology Bone disease

Contact: kp254@medschl.cam.ac.uk

David Savage

Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow Lipodystrophies

Contact: dbs23@cam.ac.uk

Nadia Schoenmakers

Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow Thyroid disease

Contact: naaa2@cam.ac.uk

Esther van Sluijs

Programme Leader and MRC Investigator Behavioural epidemiology and interventions in young people

Contact: esther.vansluijs@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Antonio Vidal-Puig

Professor, Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism, Associate Director of MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit Molecular mechanisms of energy balance and fatty liver disease

Contact: ajv22@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Nick Wareham

Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director, IMS Diabetes aetiology, obesity

Contact: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

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