Contact details
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
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
| Name | Job title | |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Allison |
Consultant Hepatologist | michael.allison@addenbrookes.nhs.uk |
| Soren Brage |
Programme Leader and MRC Investigator | soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Ruth Casey |
Consultant Endocrinologist | rcd674@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Krishna Chatterjee FRS, |
Director, NIHR CCRC, Professor, Endocrinology Inherited thyroid disorders | kkc1@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
Tony Coll |
Associate Professor, MRC Investigator | apc36@cam.ac.uk |
Mark Evans |
Professor, Diabetic Medicine and PPIE champion Diabetes | mle24@cam.ac.uk |
| Fiona Gribble |
Professor, Endocrine Physiology Peptidomics | fmg23@cam.ac.uk |
| Simon Griffin | Professor, General Practice Diabetes prevention | ProfGP@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Mark Gurnell | Professor, Clinical Endocrinology, Training champion Molecular imaging and endocrine tumours | mg299@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Roman Hovorka | Professor, Metabolic Technology Artificial pancreas, diabetes treatment | rh347@cam.ac.uk |
| Albert Koulman |
Scientific Director of the NIHR BRC Metabolomics and Lipidomics Facility Nutritional biomarkers | ak675@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Claudia Langenberg |
MRC Investigator Diabetes and related molecular disorders in later life | Claudia.Langenberg@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Claire Meek | Investigator Gestational diabetes | clm70@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Ken Ong |
Professor, Paediatric Endocrinology, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator Paediatric endocrinology | ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Stephen O’Rahilly FRS |
Co-director, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science Inherited metabolic disorders | so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| John Perry |
Professor, Molecular Endocrinology, Chair of Molecular Endocrinology, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science Childhood growth, puberty | john.perry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Ken Poole |
HEFCE Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Bone Disease and Rheumatology Bone disease | kp254@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| David Savage |
Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow Lipodystrophies | dbs23@cam.ac.uk |
| Nadia Schoenmakers |
Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow Thyroid disease | naaa2@cam.ac.uk |
| Esther van Sluijs |
Programme Leader and MRC Investigator Behavioural epidemiology and interventions in young people | 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 | ajv22@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Nick Wareham | Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director, IMS Diabetes aetiology, obesity | nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Name | Job title | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Prof Krishna Chatterjee | Professor of Endocrinology | kkc1@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Prof Tim Cox | Consultant Physician | tmc12@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Mark Evans | Reader in Diabetic Medicine | mle24@cam.ac.uk |
| Prof I. Sadaf Farooqi | Professor of Metabolism and Medicine | isf20@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Mark Gurnell | Professor of Clinical Endocrinology | mg299@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Roman Hovorka | Professor of Metabolic Technology | rh347@cam.ac.uk |
| Professor David Savage | Professor of Molecular Metabolism | dbs23@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Ken Poole | Reader in Metabolic Bone Disease and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist | kp254@nhs.net |
| Dr Nadia Schoenmakers | Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow | naaa2@cam.ac.uk |
| Prof Sir Stephen O’Rahilly | Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine | so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
