In a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, a team led by Professor Sadaf Farooqi, found that 1 in 100 children with severe obesity from the GOOS cohort, have mutations in GNAS which encodes Gαs (stimulatory G-protein alpha subunit). GNAS mutations typically cause a condition called pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) and impair signalling […]
Making new fat to control inflammation
In a recent study funded by the British Heart Foundation, Guillaume Bidault and members of the TVP group, working with colleagues from the MRC LMB, provide some important new insights into how making fat in immune cells might help to fight disease. Immune cell activation defends the body against foreign agents such as bacteria, viruses, […]
UKRI funding award for COVID-19 vaccine research
A multi-centre study, involving researchers including Dr Agatha van der Klaauw and Prof Sadaf Farooqi, with others from across the University and beyond, has been awarded UKRI funding for research that seeks to underpin how best to use vaccines for protection from COVID-19 infection. The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine ResPonse In Obesity (SCORPIO) study will investigate the […]
Michael Harbuz Award winner 2021
Congratulations to Isadora Clivatti Furigo, until recently a post-doctoral researcher in the Ozanne Group, on winning the 2021 Michael Harbuz Award. The Award is presented annually by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology to honour the memory and contribution to neuroendocrinology of Dr Michael Harbuz, who died in 2006 at the young age of 47, and […]
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