Alice Adriaenssens My work focuses on characterising the central targets of incretin hormones to better understand the gut-brain axis and its role in regulating food intake.
Dr Mark Evans My group are interested in (1) how brain detects changes in blood glucose and how this glucose-sensing interacts with peripheral metabolism; (2) how defences against hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) may become abnormal in diabetes; (3) the short an...
Professor Fiona Gribble Endocrine communication between the gut and brain, relaying food-related signals that control appetite and metabolism.
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly FRS FMedSci My research has been concerned with the elucidation of the basic causes of obesity and Type 2 diabetes at a molecular level and the translation of those discoveries into improved diagnosis and therapy for patients. My work has uncovered several p...
Dr Frank Reimann Research in the lab is currently focusing on enteroendocrine cells, especially glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secreting cells, which we hope to target in the treatment of diabetes and obesity. GLP-1 secreting cells are electrically excitable and ...