A list of the current PI-led research groups within the MOD research theme Principal Investigators and Early Career Fellows Name Area of Expertise Ruth Andrew Steroid biochemistry, metabolic flux, mass spectrometry Ahmad Al -Mrabeh Diabetes remission, experimental medicine, pancreatic biology Cecile Benezech Adipose tissue–immune system crosstalk, Impact of obesity and ageing on the immune system, inflammation Matthew Brook Epigenetics and gene regulation Will Cawthorn Bone marrow adipose tissue, caloric restriction, ageing, sex differences, immunometabolism, imaging, deep learning Shareen Forbes Pathogenesis of diabetes, organ regeneration and transplant, insulin secretion, pancreatic islets Margarete Heck Cell Biology, molecular genetics James Minchin Adipose cell biology, model organisms, genetics, in vivo imaging, CRISPR mutagenesis screens Mark Nixon Steroid metabolism, visceral/subcutaneous adipose tissue Sari Pennings Epigenetics in development and environmental exposure; nuclear chromatin control of gene expression Rebecca Reynolds Pregnancy, developmental programming Robert Semple Insulin resistance, lipodystrophy, human genetics, PI 3-kinase signalling, stem cells, model organisms Roland Stimson Brown/beige adipose tissue, obesity and associated metabolic disease Joyce Yau Steroid metabolism and the brain Affiliated Principal Investigators Tim Aitman Diagnosis of rare recessive disease by exome sequencing Triantafyllos Chavakis Inflammation, immunometabolism Laura Denby Non-coding RNA regulation of injury and repair processes within the kidney and cardiovascular system Ruth Morgan Metabolism of stress hormones in horses, humans, mice Ewan Pearson Diabetes, population health and genomics Scott Webster Drug discovery Emeritus Principal Investigators Karen Chapman Glucocorticoids, developmental processes, in utero effects, metabolism of liver and heart This article was published on 2024-03-19