New research published today in Nature Medicine has found that one in every 340 people might carry a mutation in a single gene that makes them more likely to have a greater weight from early childhood. By 18 years of age, people who carry a disruptive mutation in the MC4R gene were, on average, 17 […]
Professor Sadaf Farooqi is awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society
Congratulations to Prof Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, who has today been admitted to Fellowship of the Royal Society. Professor Farooqi is distinguished for her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis and their disruption in obesity. Farooqi discovered that the […]
£1.3m Medical Research Council funding awarded to Cambridge researchers hoping to unravel how cardiovascular disease is programmed by obese pregnancy
Congratulations to Professor Sue Ozanne at the Welcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and her colleagues Professor Dino Giussani (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) and Professor Mike Murphy (MRC Mitochrondrial Biology Unit), who have been awarded a £1.3m grant from the Medical Research Council to study the relationship between obesity in pregnancy and cardiovascular effects in the offspring. […]
Stress does not lead to loss of self-control in eating disorders
In a study carried out at the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) Translational Research Facility (TRF) in Cambridge,women with eating disorders were assessed to establish whether stress led to loss of control in eating behaviours. Researchers from the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry, supervised by Professor Paul Fletcher and Dr Hisham Ziauddeen – […]
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