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Congratulations to Professor Sue Ozanne - New Director and Head of Department

8 October 2024

The IMS-MRL is delighted to announce that Professor Susan Ozanne PhD FMedSci has recently been appointed as its new Director. Sue will also take on the roles of Co-Director of the IMS and Head of the University Department of Clinical Biochemistry. Professor Stephen O’Rahilly MD FRS FMedSci will remain Director of the MRC...

Liver fat – always the enemy?

25 September 2024

A study led by Sam Lockhart, Milan Muso , Steve O’Rahilly and others at the IMS-MRL, working with collaborators at the Universities of California, Newcastle and Leicester, has discovered that having some fat (specifically, a type of fat known as triglyceride) in liver cells may help the liver from being seriously damaged...

MicroRNA-483: a missing link between the major growth factors IGF2 and IGF1

23 September 2024

Researchers from the Constancia group led by Ionel Sandovici and Denise Fernandez-Twinn, the Ozanne group and many other colleagues at the IMS-MRL, working in collaboration with the Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Montreal and Vienna, have unravelled a previously unrecognized link between Insulin-like growth factor 1 (...

University of Cambridge, UCL and King’s researchers awarded UKRI funding for type 2 diabetes research

13 September 2024

Dr Daniel Fazakerley from the IMS-MRL, Dr Ivo Lieberam (King’s College London) and Professor Wenhui Song (University College London) are collaborating on a diabetes research project that has been awarded a total of £1.2m in funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s new interdisciplinary scheme. The project will...

Cambridge-led study discovers cause of pregnancy sickness – and potential treatment

13 December 2023

A collaborative study led by Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly , has shown why many women experience nausea and vomiting during pregnancy – and why some women, including the Duchess of Cambridge, become so sick they need to be admitted to hospital. The culprit is a hormone produced by the fetus – a protein known as GDF15...

Congratulations to Professor Sue Ozanne - New Director and Head of Department

Liver fat – always the enemy?

MicroRNA-483: a missing link between the major growth factors IGF2 and IGF1

University of Cambridge, UCL and King’s researchers awarded UKRI funding for type 2 diabetes research

Cambridge-led study discovers cause of pregnancy sickness – and potential treatment

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