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Principal investigators in theme:

Name: Dr Catherine Aiken
Topic: metabolism in pregnancy reproductive aging developmental programming
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: cema2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-catherine-aiken/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Joy Archer
Topic: Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ja331@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ja331@cam.ac.uk
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Kathryn Beardsall
Topic: Perinatal metabolism: impact on short term care and long term health
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: kb274@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://paediatrics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/people/senior-academic-sta...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Clemence Blouet
Topic: Characterizing how nutrients are detected by the brain to maintain energy homeostasis
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: csb69@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/clemence-...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Soren Brage
Topic: Physical activity epidemiology
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/soren-brage/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jackie Brearley
Topic: Anaesthesia
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jcb78@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jcb78@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Malcolm Burrows
Topic: Neural processing in local circuits that control natural limb movements
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: mb135@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/malcolm-burrows
 Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Krishna Chatterjee
Topic: Molecular endocrinology; nuclear receptors and human disease
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology / Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: tdw30 at medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/krishna-c...
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Anthony Coll
Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: apc36@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Coll/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Bill Colledge
Topic: Mammalian reproductive physiology using transgenic mice
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: whc23@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/colledge/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Miguel Constancia
Topic: Epigenetics in health and disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: jmasmc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/Constancia.php
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Fernando Constantino-Casas
Topic: Pathology
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: fc307@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Emeritus Timothy Cox
Topic: Lysosomal diseases - specifically pathogenesis and therapeutic development for sphingolipidoses
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Medicine
Email: tmc12@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.postgradschl.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/research-themes-1
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Andrew Crawford
Topic: Sensory transduction in the inner ear
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ac151@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-crawford
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Mark Evans
Topic: Brain glucose and nutrient sensing, hypoglycaemia
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Wellcome Trust MRC Institute of Metabolic Medicine and Department of Medicine
Email: mle24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/mark-evans/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Farooqi
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor  Walter Federle
Topic: Animal biomechanics, insect-plant interactions
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Zoology
Email: wf222@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/walter-federle
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alison Forhead
Topic: Endocrine control of fetal development and maturation
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ajf1005@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/forhead/
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Nita Forouhi
Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/nutrition
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Abigail Fowden
Topic: Fetal and placental physiology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: alf1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/abigail-fowden
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor John Gibson
Topic: Ion and water homeostasis in red cells and chondrocytes
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jsg1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jsg1001@cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dino Giussani
Topic: Hypoxia and developmental origins of cardiovascular health and disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: dag26@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/giussani
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Fiona Gribble
Topic: Signalling in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fmg23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/fiona-gri...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mark Gurnell
Topic: Acquired and genetic disorders of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid function; functional imaging in endocrine neoplasia; acromegaly
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology / Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: mg299@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Gurnell/index.php
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Judy Hirst
Topic: The structure and mechanism, function and medically-relevant dysfunction, of mitochondrial complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase)
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: judy.hirst@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hirst-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nicola Holdstock
Topic: Neonatal medicine and physiology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: nbh10@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/nbh10@cam.ac.uk/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Roman Hovorka
Topic: Relationship between insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion.  Longitudinal analysis of metabolic disturbances in Type 2 diabetes. Artificial pancreas
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Paediatrics (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: rh347@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/Staff/PI/Hovroka/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Huang
Topic: Calcium and cellular activation processes in skeletal and cardiac muscle including mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: clh11@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/huang/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Randall Johnson
Topic: The micro-physiology of tissues and how it affects growth development and disease in mammalian genetic systems
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: rsj33@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rjohnson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Fiona Karet
Topic: Renal tubular homeostasis in health and disease
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: fek1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-fiona-karet
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Arthur Kaser
Topic: Metabo-genetics of autoinflammation/autoimmunity (focus on Crohn's and Still's disease). Core metabolism of the cell.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medicine & Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease
Email: ak729@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/arthur-kaser/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr  Albert  Koulman
Topic: Development of mass spectrometry for metabolomics and lipidomics
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: ak675@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/albert-ko...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edmund Kunji
Topic: Structure and function of mitochondrial transport proteins
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: ek@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/kunji-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jane Ladlow
Topic: Small animal surgery
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jfl1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jfl1001@cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Claudia Langenberg
Topic: Epidemiology of diabetes and cardiovascular complications
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: claudia.langenberg@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/aetiology-of-diabetes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr L. Miguel Martins
Topic: Mitochondria and cell death regulation following toxic injury
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: lm795@mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/l-m-martins-programme
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Florian Merkle
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurological disease using human stem cell-derived and animal model systems
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fm436@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.merklelab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sara Morais de Silva
Topic: Cross-talk between cell cycle proteins and metabolic pathways.
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: slm88@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/sara-morais-de-silva
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Michael Murphy
Topic: Targeting molecules to mitochondria mitochondrial radical production thiol redox state and redox signalling
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: michael.murphy@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/mike-murphy
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrew Murray
Topic: Mitochondrial physiology in health and disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ajm267@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-murray
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ken Ong
Topic: Childhood obesity, growth and development, and relationships to adult metabolic disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit / Department of Paediatrics
Email: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/ken-ong/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/hod/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Laura  Owen
Topic: Urinary incontinence and urinary tract cancers; Wound management and reconstruction
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: lo247@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.research.vet.cam.ac.uk/research-staff-directory/principal-in...
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Susan Ozanne
Topic: Early life programming of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: seo10@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/susan-oza...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nazima Pathan
Topic: Pathophysiology of multi-organ failure in critical illness
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: np409@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://paediatrics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/people/senior-academic-sta...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Gareth Pearce
Topic: Animal health and welfare involving wildlife fish and farm animals
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: gpp28@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/gpp28@cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ken Poole
Topic: Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Rare Bone Diseases; Imaging and Microstructural Analysis
Themes: Medical Imaging, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: kp254@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/poole/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Heidi Radke
Topic: Orthopaedics in cats and dogs
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: hr264@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/hr264@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Eleanor  Raffan
Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics
Themes:
Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Frank Reimann
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AffiliatePI/Reiman.php
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Rodgers
Topic: Ultra-high field (7T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre)
Email: ctr28@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ctr28
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Ron
Topic: Protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum
Themes: Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: dr360@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-ron-md-fmedsci-frs
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Savage
Topic: Mechanisms of insulin resistance
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: dbs23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Savage/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Nadia  Schoenmakers
Topic: Genetic basis of congenital hypothyroidism
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: naaa2@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/nadia-sch...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Topic: Placental development and function and its relevance for pregnancy success and life-long health
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ans48@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/amanda-sferruzzi-perri
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Teresa Tiffert
Topic: Homeostasis of human erythrocytes in health and disease; calcium regulation in malaria-infected erythrocyte
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: jtt1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tiffert/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Jelle van den Ameele
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial disease, chromatin regulation during brain development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/van-den-ameele-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of energy balance
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: ajv22@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/VidalPuig/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicholas Wareham
Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/aetiology-of-diabe...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Erica Watson
Topic: Epigenetic mechanism of folate metabolism during development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: edw23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/watson-erica
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Tim Williams
Topic: Biology of extracellular vesicles and biomarkers of renal disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: tlw27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/tlw27
Applications from potential students are welcome

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