Prof Sadaf Farooqi, group leader at the IMS-MRL, discusses her career in the genetics of obesity with BBC Radio’s Jim Al-Khalili.
Dr Mark Evans, one of our research group leaders, explains how medical alert assistance dogs can help patients with type 1 diabetes to manage their condition.
PhD student Tendai Chisowa talks about Dr Davidson Nichol, the first black African to be a fellow of a Cambridge College, plus her own research at the IMS-MRL.
Research nurse Janet Allen talks to Katie, 10, soon after she has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Katie is taking part in an artificial pancreas study.
Group leader Prof Roman Hovorka talks about how the artificial pancreas works and can improve life for people with type 1 diabetes.
Our Director Prof Sir Stephen O’Rahilly asks why people have different susceptibilities to obesity and why being fat can, but doesn’t always, lead to metabolic disease.
IMS-MRL PhD student Jennie Leggat talks to Dr Chris about how fat works in an episode of this popular BBC kids’ show.
Entertaining talk by geneticist Dr Giles Yeo who gives the annual Haldane lecture at the Royal Institution.
Short videos filmed in our laboratories and showing some of the methods we use in our research.
Prof Sadaf Farooqi talks to ITV News about a study that looks for ‘thin genes’.
Regular contributors Dr Sam Virtue and Dr Giles Yeo tackle questions including can you cure yourself of diabetes? and is obesity genetic?
Prof Krishna Chatterjee explains a gene abnormality identified as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Doctors and nurses who are also researchers talk about how their clinical practice helps with their research and vice versa.
Dr Giles Yeo appears on the Skandanavian TV talk show Skavlan.
