Current Fellows
Niall Dempster
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.
Claudia Guida
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.
Didi He
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘X-ray and Cryo-EM Structures for Novel Human Membrane Protein Targets in Diabetes and Obesity’.
PIs: Professor Liz Carpenter.
Thomas Hill
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Regulation of delta-cell pancreatic secretion in health and disease’.
PIs: Professor Frances Ashcroft and Professor Patrik Rorsman.
Samantha Laber
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.
Laura McKillop
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.
Jack Miller
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Assessing the cardiovascular impact of novel diabetic treatments using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance’.
Ahmad Moolla
Clinical Research Training Fellow
‘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.
Yue Ruan
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
Dragana Savic
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.
Gitalee Sarker
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Neuroimmunity in Obesity and Cardiac function’.
PIs: Associate Professor Ana Domingos, Professor Irina Udalova, Professor David Paterson and Dr Fang Zhang (NNRCO).
Andrea van Dam
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘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
'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.
Nikita Ved
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.
Anna Veprik
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Investigating lipid metabolism in islet a-cells and gut L-cells, as a nutrient sensing mechanism controlling hormone secretion’.
Manu Verma
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Investigations into the role of TCF7L2 in human obesity and metabolic dysfunction’.
PIs: Professor Fredrik Karpe and Dr Constantinos Christodoulides.
Richard Yan-Do
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
‘Dissection of the functional effects of genetic variants on obesity related traits’.