Congratulations to Fiona Gribble who has been nominated as Vice President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and its closely-related Foundation (EASD/EFSD) with effect from January 1 2020. Professor Gribble’s term of office runs until the end of 2021. The EASD is a non-profit, medical scientific association founded in 1965 with aims […]
A mechanism for the effects of metformin on body weight and energy balance
New research published in Nature and undertaken in the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge, with collaborators at NGM Biopharmacueticals, the University of Glasgow and elsewhere, shows how metformin, the world’s most commonly prescribed anti-diabetic drug, works to reduce body weight. Metformin has been used to treat Type 2 diabetes for over […]
The Pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of SH2B1 plays a crucial role in energy homeostasis
The GOOS team have been involved in the publication of a new paper in the journal Diabetes. Previous work from Prof Sadaf Farooqi’s team established a central role of SH2B1 in the regulation of human energy homeostasis and neurodevelopment. In the present study Prof Farooqi’s lab, in collaboration with Christin Carter-Su and Martin Myers’ groups […]
Florian Merkle wins NYSCF prize
Congratulations to Florian Merkle who has been named a Robertson Stem Cell Investigator – one of six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists welcomed by the New York Stem Cell Foundation into the NYSCF Investigator Program. The programme fosters and encourages promising early career scientists whose cutting-edge research holds the potential to […]
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