Up front & free to read in our Nov issue #editorspicks: The utility of early gestational OGTT and biomarkers for the development of gestational diabetes mellitus: an international prospective multicentre cohort study link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.bmj.com/content/389/... @ozannelab.bsky.social @ims-mrl.bsky.social

This week @helferlab.bsky.social and I had a great and productive day visiting @mrcharwell.bsky.social to help get set up for my @acmedsci.bsky.social funded animal study. Really excited to be moving forward! 🐭🧠🍔🔬

I’ve been hosting the 7th International Melanocortin Meeting here in Cambridge with my co-organisers Roger Cone, Kate Ellacott @neuroendo.bsky.social and Anne White. Spectacular science! Here we are at the conference dinner! #obesityisnotachoice

The 7th International Melanocortin meeting was full of energy, science & connections old & new. I will miss the excuse to regularly catch up with my fellow organisers Giles @gilesyeo.bsky.social, Anne @annewhite-uom.bsky.social, & Roger Cone. Thanks to Bioscientifica @socendocrinology.bsky.social

In our new special issue: Prevention of type 2 diabetes in migrant populations from low- and middle-income countries living in high-income countries link.springer.com/article/10.1.... See the full collection here diabetologia-journal.org/collections/...

Hey friends and colleagues ! Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute - VCHRI is now on Bluesky, give them a follow @vchresearch.bsky.social

Here are the curated lists of pubs in the #PlacentalCellBio @biomednews.bsky.social report from the last two weeks! biomed.news/bims-placeb/... biomed.news/bims-placeb/... My personal choice: this resource from the Zernicka-Goetz's lab! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40882624/ Enjoy!

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 👇👇👇👇 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...

Very cool paper connecting nutrition, epigenetics and developmental biology. rdcu.be/eptl7

🎉 Thrilled to share my postdoc work, with our preprint out now on BiorXiv here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We investigated how the juvenile brain develops the ability to carry out care behaviours towards neonates by an exciting and surprising switch in neural activity and behaviour

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to Jo Lewis, 2025 winner of the Michael Harbuz Prize! Jo will speak at #BSNBradford2025 on Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide regulates food intake and body weight via the area postrema in mice. Register: bsnbradford2025.oa-e...

“Our children’s lifelong health starts in the first 1,000 days - from conception to age two" @acmedsci.bsky.social report, co-chaired by our very own co-chair Susan Ozanne @ozannelab.bsky.social underscores that habits and environments established early are hard to change later Read more 👇

Huge congratulations to Serge Luquet on receiving the Silver Medal from @CNRS! So well deserved 👏🏻 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

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Co-published with Italy’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, this report shows that success comes from addressing the systems and environments shaping children’s health, not just individual behaviours. 🔗 Read the report: bit.ly/46qy7tN

This analysis comes ahead of the NHS 10-Year Health Plan to address health inequalities and echoes the Council for Science and Technology’s letter - co-chaired by our President Prof Andrew Morris CBE FRSE PMedSci - for bold leadership and cross-govt action to prioritise prevention.

Key evidence includes: 👶 The first 1,000 days of life shape lifelong health 📉 Obesity rates are 2x higher in deprived areas 🏘️ Public health interventions beat individual fixes Our Vice President (Clinical), Prof @rosalindsmyth.bsky.social CBE FMedSci, shares the importance of early action 👇

🚨 Childhood obesity is rising at alarming rates around the world Our latest report, with Italy’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, calls for early intervention to ensure healthier futures for all children 🌱 Read the report: bit.ly/46qy7tN And see our key takeaways 🧵

The report calls for urgent action to: 🤰 Prioritise support during pregnancy 🍴 Ensure robust regulation of the food industry 🤝 Coordinate across govt departments i.e. food, education, urban planning and transport

This highlights the need for long-term cardiovascular follow up in offspring (of both sexes!) from human metformin-treated pregnancies to inform decisions about its use in pregnancy - a tricky question that requires balancing mum and baby's health 👩‍🍼

Offspring of obese mice had hypertension and diastolic dysfunction by 12mo. Maternal #metformin worsened the phenotype and introduced sex-dependent CV alterations in both male (cardiac stiffening, vascular dysfunction) & female (obesity-induced hypertension) offspring.

Our new paper showing sex-specific adverse #cardiovascular outcomes of prenatal #metformin exposure in a mouse model of diet-induced glucose intolerance is out now in @jphysiol.bsky.social ! 🐁❤️ ♂️♀ Find it here shorturl.at/VKqjD (in collab with @ozannelab.bsky.social & Giussani labs) #DOHaD

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’‬

Professor Edward Bullmore FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work has focused on developing new tools for analysis of the complex network organization of the human brain, and understanding how schizophrenia & other major mental health disorders arise. royalsociety.org/people/ed-bu...

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...

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

👏 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 More details 👇 www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

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 More details 👇 www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Congratulations to our own Professor Frank Reimann www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

I'm excited to share our latest pre-print on proximity proteomics of primary cilia in human hypothalamic neurons, led by Viviana Macarelli, which revealed proteins involved in synapses and neurotransmission and the obesity-associated GPCR LPAR1. Details at bit.ly/4jcTodq

I was delighted to host former colleague Dr Rajesh Pandey at Nottingham Trent today, after not having seen each other in person for about 6 years!

Read our June Issue, featuring maternal diabetes and neurodevelopment in children, central diabetes insipidus, primary polydipsia, muscle composition, T2D, obesity, thyroid cancer, hypertriglyceridaemia-induced acute pancreatitis, ultra-processed foods, & more bit.ly/2LArJXX #MedSky #EndoSky

Today we've announced the new Faraday Fellowship accelerated international route, which will grant up to £30 million in funding over the next two years to attract global talent and support the development of world-leading research groups in the UK: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...

We need more women like Sue Ozanne in senior leadership positions within the University. Her science is exceptional, but so is her commitment to building a positive research culture where people can both enjoy their work and deliver world-leading research.

🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨 Interested in sexual dimorphism & hypothalamus development? Join our motivated team at the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences and dive into exciting neuroscience research! Apply now via the UNIL website. 🔬🧠 career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

👏🏻Great presentation from Melissa @ Canadian National Perinatal Research Meeting on her undergrad thesis work investigating the placenta-fetal brain axis & how maternal HF diet-induced obesity programmes the placenta & brain metabolomes in tissue- and sex-specific manners! @dohadcanada.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended the 8th DOHaD Canada Annual Scientific Meeting. A special thanks to our outstanding co-chairs, Dr. Tina Montreuil and Dr. Sarah Lippé, for organizing the event. Here are some highlights. #DOHaDCanada2025 #ScientificMeeting #Gratitude #EventRecap

Busy room at the first Neuroendocrinology & Integrative Physiology symposium at #NeuroFrance2025! Fascinating talks on brain-body regulation of energy and glucose homeostasis @socneuro.bsky.social @sneuroendo.bsky.social

Congratulations to our post doc fellow Adriana for winning a prize for best poster at the BHF centre for research excellence away day! It was a great day for everyone @ims-mrl.bsky.social @vpd-hlri.bsky.social

With an editorial from the expert, Dr. Alice E. Adriaenssens @cambridgeuni.bsky.social disentangling divergent neural networks that explain the success of both GIPR gain and loss of function strategies for promoting #weightloss #obesity @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Grateful to speak at the 33rd Congress of the Tunisian Society of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases in Monastir in a session on Hormones & Environment for World Hormone Day

NIH PostBac program is open again! And I will be hiring! #JobPostComing www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

More children are drawing women scientists than ever before. Good! Although these children also assume a level of PPE that is not common among most scientists I know! www.science.org/content/arti...

At an event at @wallacemuseum with Sir Grayson Perry!

**JOB ALERT** We are hiring two post-doctoral Research Associates with experience: • Planning and delivering stakeholder workshops • Knowledge of systems thinking is essential • Experience of group model building is highly desirable Find out more and apply - buff.ly/tgdxG8B Deadline - 04/05/25

The Department of Pharmacology at the University is seeking a new colleague at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44592/

Applications close this coming FRIDAY!! 👇👇👇

Two more weeks to enjoy early bird rates to attend this exciting neuroscience conference in the beautiful city of Montpellier, France 🧠☀️

What a fantastic start to our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded sample collection. Very lucky to be part of such a wonderful team #reprorocks @evol-molly.bsky.social @parisa-noohi.bsky.social @jessicacedge.bsky.social @haideetinning.bsky.social