Congratulations to Drs Denise Fernandez-Twinn and Samuel Furse on receiving a Directors Collaborative Award to study the role of lipid metabolism in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and programming cardio-metabolic disorders in the offspring. The award will allow Denise and Samuel, postdocs in the Ozanne and Koulmann labs respectively, to combine their expertise and work together on […]
MRL researcher to present Turner-Warwick Lecture
Congratulations to Dr Charlotte Boughton of the Hovorka Group who has been chosen to give the Royal College of Physicians’ regional Turner-Warwick Lecture, a new award for 2019. Dr Boughton’s title for the RCP’s Update in Medicine – Cambridge on June 28th will be ‘The artificial pancreas for hospitalised patients with diabetes’. Traditionally, lectures at […]
Weight loss surgery changes the way our bodies sense food
New research published today in Cell Reports helps explain how bariatric surgery changes the way the gut senses food and nutrients. Researchers from the Gribble and Reimann groups show that surgery alters patterns of digestion and absorption lower in the gut triggering production of higher levels of gut hormones, especially glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), which […]
Identifying GDF15 as an endocrine signal of nutritional stress
Work led by Stephen O’Rahilly, David Savage and Tony Coll from the Institute of Metabolic Science and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit published online in Cell Metabolism brings new insights into how states of caloric overload are signalled to the brain. Leptin is a well-known signal which informs the brain of the state of energy stores. However, […]
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