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Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories
@ims-mrl.bsky.social
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Research institute based at the University of Cambridge specialising in diabetes, obesity and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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In our final @ims-mrl.bsky.social external seminar for this term, Professor Ivan de Araujo from the @mpicybernetics.bsky.social in Germany is talking to us about the 'Gut-Brain Mechanisms of Hunger'
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Congratulations to Professor Sadaf @farooqi-lab.bsky.social
(@ims-mrl.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk), Yong Xu (@usf.edu) and Tiago Branco (@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social), on their @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant to study the biology of instinctive behaviour

Read more: www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/europea...
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Today’s external seminar at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social will be given by Dr Carina Ämmälä from the Novo Nordisk Research Centre, Oxford on the subject of ‘Building a “Discovery Engine” powered by large-scale data generation for unbiased drug target discovery’
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We look forward to welcoming Professor @smandrup.bsky.social from @sdu.dk who is visiting the @ims-mrl.bsky.social to talk to us about ‘Adipose tissue plasticity at single cell resolution’
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Congratulations to Dr @cabannon.bsky.social on being awarded a £65,000 Kathleen Harper award from the BMA Foundation for Medical Research to further develop his research into the role of the gut hormone INSL5, in patients with chronic diarrhoea.
www.bmafoundationmr.org.uk/grant-winner...
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Today we celebrate #Diwali at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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We look forward to welcoming Professor @adeshmukh.bsky.social from the @cbmr.science @novo-nordisk.bsky.social as he delivers our first external seminar of the Michaelmas term.
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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We loved #BigBiologyDay with games and demos about sugar and fibre are in everyday foods, plus great chats about science careers.
Big thanks to @mrcepid.bsky.social and @ims-mrl.bsky.social - Paul, Agnes, Josh, Laura, Andreea and Thomas.
#PublicEngagement #ScienceForAll #STEM #Cambridge
October 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🙌Many congratulations to all winners, but in particular our very own Professor Sadaf Farooqi as recipient of the Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research.

ℹ️https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sadaf-farooqi-honoured-endocrine-society-2026-laureate-award
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Come and join us at the @Cambridge Biomedical Campus
#Wellness Festival. Find out about food and blood sugar, insulin peaks what it means for everyday food choices.
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Sharing for our colleagues at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social who are carrying out a survey on weight loss drugs and pregnancy.
Please help us learn more.
Take the survey
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August 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Announcing the launch of our @ims-mrl.bsky.social Clinical Studies and PPI Opportunities Website

ℹ️ ims-mrl-studies.org.uk

Promoting research studies and public/patient involvement opportunities in a clear and accessible way for participants and collaborators alike.
August 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Fantastic celebration today of our 2024-25 Obesity, Endocrinology & Metabolism Taught MPhil cohort.
Posters and pizza - always a winner.
www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/study-us/tau...
#MPhil #obesity #metabolism #diabetes
People looking at academic posters MPhil students standing by their academic poster
July 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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For our next @ims-mrl.bsky.social seminar, we look forward to welcoming Professor Robert Waterland from @bcmhouston.bsky.social to talk to us about ‘Epigenetic epidemiology: Time for a fresh start’.
June 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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For our next @ims-mrl.bsky.social seminar, we look forward to welcoming Professor @brent-richards.bsky.social ‪‪from McGill University, Montreal, Canada to talk to us about ‘Causality, Calories, and COVID: Chasing Disease through the Human Genome’‬
June 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Delighted that Professor Sir @stephenorahilly.bsky.social from the @ims-mrl.bsky.social has been announced as joint winner of the Distinguished Service Award at the 2nd Lund Spring Symposium, along with Professor Jens Juul Holst
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May 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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👏 Congratulations to Professor Frank Reimann, Professor of Endocrine Signalling at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social on being elected as a new Fellow at the @acmedsci.bsky.social
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May 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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This is a very exciting time for research into Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) and we are fully supportive of International HG Awareness Day taking place today. #HGProgress #IHGAD25 #HyperemesisGravidarum #PregnancySicknessSupport
May 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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For our next @ims-mrl.bsky.social seminar, we look forward to welcoming Dr Wei Li from the @vpd-hlri.bsky.social to talk to us about ‘Extracellular regulation of BMP family signalling in Cardiovascular and metabolic health and diseases’
May 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Congratulations to Professor Sadaf Farooqi as Joint ‘Endocrinology Across the Life Course Award’ winner from @esendocrinology.bsky.social & European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE).
www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
May 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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We look forward to welcoming Professor Mike Murphy @mrc-mbu.bsky.social at the @cambridgeuni.bsky.social as he delivers our first external seminar of the Easter term.
May 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Dr Alexander Mörseburg from @ims-mrl.bsky.social & @mrcepid.bsky.social has built a proteomic “ageing clock” using data from 44,435 people in the UK Biobank, showing that a higher BMI and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes were both associated with faster biological ageing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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👏👏Congratulations to Professor @stephenorahilly.bsky.social, who yesterday visited @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social, Montreal as the 2025 Novo Nordisk lecturer - their highest honour in #Diabetes and #Metabolism which has been awarded for the past 40 years.
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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@ims-mrl.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social full-time taught MPhil in Obesity, Endocrinology and Metabolism for 2025/2026

Application deadline 4th April!!!

High quality postgrad training in physiology & pathophysiology of energy balance & metabolism.

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March 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM