The Discovery Research Platform for Integrating Metabolic and Endocrine Science aims to address practical barriers preventing data integration across metabolic and endocrine science, investigate how hormones control metabolic processes and how these can go wrong in disorders such as obesity, diabetes and cachexia, and create tools to facilitate global access to this data. The Platform will encompass research on molecules, cells and model organisms but will have a major focus on discovery science in human participants, patients and populations.
The funding will sustain key technological platforms and the highly-trained staff needed to support these. It will also underpin partnerships with research centres across the UK as well as in Germany and Denmark, all of which will provide new opportunities for training.
The Platform will have a major focus on the broad dissemination of integrated data and the creation of tools to facilitate access by the global community. The award will also accelerate the team’s drive to make transformational changes to research culture with new initiatives in widening access and open science reinforced by a new programme of research into the culture of biomedical science, in collaboration with Dr Yeun Joon Kim, Associate Professor at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and PI for the Platform, said when the award was announced:
“Wellcome’s support of our scientists’ research in metabolism and endocrinology, and of the technological platforms that underpin it, has been critically important to the discoveries we have made and the translation of that research into improvements in health. This new award will allow us to build on those achievements and deliver more ground-breaking science in a manner that emphasises openness, diversity and a spirit of collaboration.”
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