Past Fellows
Lorna Daniels
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2020-2023
‘Circadian regulation of liver energy metabolism: translational studies in diabetes’.
PIs: Professor David Ray and Dr Maxwell Ruby (NNRCO).
Shilpa Nagarajan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2019-2023
'Defining human hepatic insulin resistance'
Dragana Savic
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2018-2022
'Investigating the role of oxidative stress and insulin resistance in NAFLD progression with advanced MR techniques and stable-isotope tracers'
PIs: Dr Michael Pavlides, Professor Stefan Neubauer, Professor Leanne Hodson
Thomas Hill
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018-2022
"Regulation of delta-cell pancreatic secretion in health and disease"
PIs: Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft and Professor Patrik Rorsman
Xuelu Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2019-2021
‘The role of ACVR1C signalling in human fat distribution’.
PIs: Professor Fredrik Karpe and Dr Constantinos Christodoulides.
Jack Miller
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2021
‘Assessing the cardiovascular impact of novel diabetic treatments using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance’.
Richard Yan-Do
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018-2021
‘Dissection of the functional effects of genetic variants on obesity related traits’.
Laura McKillop
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018-2021
‘Investigating the relationship between glucose homeostasis and torpor in mice’.
PIs: Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dr James Cantley (visiting scientist) and Associate Professor Stuart Peirson.
Yue Ruan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2021
‘Personalisation of glycaemic regimes to reduce in-hospital hypoglycaemia’.
PIs: Dr Rustam Rea, Dr Alistair Lumb, Dr Garry Tan, Prof Jim Davies, Prof Mihaela van der Schaar
Andrea van Dam
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2021
‘Unravelling the role of Hedgehog signalling in human obesity and body fat distribution’.
PIs: Dr Constantinos Christodoulides and Professor Fredrik Karpe.
Vincent van der Vinne
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018-2020
'Investigating metabolic control and sleep during photoperiod-induced torpor in Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)'.
PIs: Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dr James Cantley (Visiting Scientist) and Associate Professor Stuart Peirson.
Didi He
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2020
‘X-ray and Cryo-EM structures for novel human membrane protein targets in diabetes and obesity'.
Samantha Laber
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2020
‘Determining potential causal mechanisms by genetic fine mapping, genomic annotation and functional characterization at obesity and fat distribution loci’.
Nikita Ved
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-2020
‘How does maternal pre-gestational diabetes increase the risk of having children with heart defects?'.
PI: Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow and Professor Frances Ashcroft.
Manu Verma
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-2020
‘Investigations into the role of TCF7L2 in human obesity and metabolic dysfunction'.
PI: Professor Fredrik Karpe and Dr Constantinos Christodoulides.
Claudia Guida
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-2020
‘Role of peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY) on pancreatic islet secretion and in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery’.
PIs: Professor Patrik Rorsman.
Niall Dempster
Clinical Research Training Fellow, 2016-2020
'Understanding improvements in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Defining the impact of very low calorie diet and bariatric surgery on lipid flux'.
PIs: Professor Jeremy Tomlinson, Associate Professor Leanne Hodson and Dr Garry Tan.
Jakob Knudsen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-2019
‘Fumarate - the elusive link between diabetes and cancer?'.
Anna Veprik
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-2019
‘Investigating lipid metabolism in islet a-cells and gut L-cells, as a nutrient sensing mechanism controlling hormone secretion'.
PI: Dr James Cantley and Professor Heidi de Wet.
Ahmad Moolla
Clinical Research Training Fellow, 2016-2019
‘Using Multi-Parametric Magnetic Resonance Techniques to determine the severity and response to treatment of liver fibrosis, inflammation, steatosis and iron in patients with type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease’.
PIs: Professor Jeremy Tomlinson and Professor Stefan Neubauer.
Julia Parnis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-2018
‘The role of γ2 AMPK in islet secretory physiology’.
PIs: Professor Houman Ashrafian, Dr Arash Yavari and Professor Patrik Rorsman.
Amy Chiu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018
‘Exploring a novel signalling in 'dysfunctional' adipose tissue, mediating the cardiovascular complications of diabetes’.
PIs: Professor Charalambos Antoniades and Professor Keith Channon.
Charlotte Green
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-2018
‘The effect of metformin on hepatic fatty acid partitioning: an investigation using human in vivo and in vitro cellular models’.
Michael Dodd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014 - 2018
'Hypoxic signalling in the type 2 diabetic heart – mechanisms for therapeutic modulation'
Maria Rohm
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-2017
‘Molecular mechanisms regulating reversible changes in cell structure and function induced by diabetes’.
Martijn van de Bunt
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-2017
‘Insights into type 2 diabetes pathogenesis through transcriptomic and functional analysis of the developing human islet’.
PIs: Professor Mark McCarthy and Professor Anna Gloyn.