In line with current university guidelines, the IMS-MRL is closed for all but essential activity and most of our staff and students are working remotely. To get in touch please use email.
What are we doing?
Some of our staff are helping to combat the effects of COVID-19 directly, often at risk to themselves, providing clinical support, helping at testing facilities, providing food for Addenbrooke’s staff or helping to source and fund PPE.
Many of our staff and students are working differently to continue our research or support administrative functions. A few staff continue to provide essential safety and maintenance services inside our buildings.
We are working hard to keep everyone connected including bringing our Tuesday seminar series online. Please contact us if you are interested in attending.
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The Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories (IMS-MRL) and its embedded 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 groups encompass skills in genetics, cell biology, cell signalling, neuroendocrinology, bioenergetics, human and animal physiology, experimental medicine and clinical trials.
The IMS-MRL is the base for the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit which supports four programmes of research that aim to improve understanding of the mechanisms responsible for obesity and related metabolic diseases.
Together with a Welcome Strategic Award, it also supports core scientific facilities that underpin basic and experimental science at the IMS-MRL.
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