Current Fellows

Amy Chiu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Exploring a novel signalling in "dysfunctional" adipose tissue, mediating the cardiovascular complications of diabetes'.

PIs: Professor Charalambos Antoniades and Professor Keith Channon

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.

Charlotte Green

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘The effect of metformin on hepatic fatty acid partitioning: an investigation using human in vivo and in vitro cellular models’.

PIs: Associate Professor Leanne Hodson. 

Claudia Guida

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

PIs: Dr Reshma Ramracheya and 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. 

Jakob Knudsen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

‘Fumarate - the elusive link between diabetes and cancer?’

PIs: 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: Profesor 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’.

PIs: Associate Professor Damian Tyler. 

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

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’.

PIs: Dr James Cantley and Associate Professor Heidi de Wet. 

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.