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The Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories (IMS-MRL) and its embedded Medical Research Council (MRC) Metabolic Diseases Unit investigate the mechanisms through which metabolic health is maintained and how this is disturbed in disease. We seek to use that knowledge to aid better treatment and prevention of obesity, Type 2 diabetes and related endocrine and metabolic diseases.
IMS-MRL research groups encompass skills in genetics, cell biology, cell signalling, neuroendocrinology, bioenergetics, human and animal physiology, experimental medicine and clinical trials.
Latest news
European Research Council grant for Dr Eleanor Raffan, Affiliated PI
16 December 2025
Eight University of Cambridge researchers including Dr Eleanor Raffan , Affiliated PI at the IMS-MRL, will receive a share of the European Research Council’s (ERC) record €728 million Consolidator Grant awards this year. The grants support mid-career researchers to carry out cutting-edge research projects lasting up to...
DDEA Strategic Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Dr Chris Bannon
3 December 2025
We are delighted to announce that Dr Chris Bannon has been awarded a Strategic Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (DDEA). A key component of the fellowship funding will be a collaboration with Dr Anne-Marie Ellegaard's group at the Center for Clinical Metabolic Research (CCMR)...
6 November 2025
Three research groups from the University of Cambridge, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL and the University of South Florida (USF) have been awarded a highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant to study the biology of instinctive behaviour. Some types of animal behaviour are instinctive in that...
