Current Fellows

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Circadian regulation of liver energy metabolism: translational studies in diabetes’.

PIs: Professor David Ray and Dr Maxwell Ruby (NNRCO).

Clinical Research Training Fellow

'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.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Role of peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY) on pancreatic islet secretion and in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery’.

PIs: Professor Patrik Rorsman.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘X-ray and Cryo-EM Structures for Novel Human Membrane Protein Targets in Diabetes and Obesity’.

PIs: Professor Liz Carpenter. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Regulation of delta-cell pancreatic secretion in health and disease’.

PIs: Professor Frances Ashcroft and Professor Patrik Rorsman. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Determining potential causal mechanisms by genetic fine mapping, genomic annotation and functional characterization at obesity and fat distribution loci’.

PIs: Professor Cecilia Lindgren. 



Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Investigating the relationship between glucose homeostasis and torpor in mice’.

PIs: Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dr James Cantley and Associate Professor Stuart Peirson.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Assessing the cardiovascular impact of novel diabetic treatments using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance’.

PIs: Associate Professor Damian Tyler. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Defining human hepatic insulin resistance’. 

PIs: Professor Leanne Hodson, Professor Fredrik Karpe and Dr Katherine Pinnick. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘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 and Professor Leanne Hodson.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Neuroimmunity in Obesity and Cardiac function’.

PIs: Associate Professor Ana Domingos, Professor Irina Udalova, Professor David Paterson and Dr Enrique Toledo Maldonado (NNRCO).

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Unravelling the role of Hedgehog signalling in human obesity and body fat distribution’.

PIs: Dr Constantinos Christodoulides and Professor Fredrik Karpe.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

'Investigating metabolic control and sleep during photoperiod-induced torpor in Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)'.

PIs: Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dr James Cantley and Associate Professor Stuart Peirson.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘How does maternal pre-gestational diabetes increase the risk of having children with heart defects?’.

PIs: Dr Duncan Sparrow and Professor Frances Ashcroft. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Investigations into the role of TCF7L2 in human obesity and metabolic dysfunction’.

PIs: Professor Fredrik Karpe and Dr Constantinos Christodoulides. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘The role of ACVR1C signalling in human fat distribution’.

PI: Professor Fredrik Karpe and Dr Constantinos Christodoulides. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Dissection of the functional effects of genetic variants on obesity related traits’.

PI: Professor Cecilia Lindgren.