Out today in Nature: We uncover a neural mechanism for the integration of two internal states - hunger and estrous state - and how this integration shapes pup-directed behaviors in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read our new review that covers the fast moving topic of whether GLP1R agonists such as Semaglutide and Tirzepatide can be used safely in pregnancy.

So many good reports this past week! Take a look at my #PlacentalCellBio selection thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social biomed.news/bims-placeb/... I really liked the preprint by Mike Soares' group on PPARG and invasive trophos using a combination of models: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41278877/

🤩 I’m beyond excited to finally share our paper! 🎉 It’s been a long journey and a true team effort. Congratulations to our outstanding first authors, @lcreimon.bsky.social and Ayden Gouveia, and to all of the co-authors who made this possible 🙌! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Interesting new paper from the @ozannelab.bsky.social showing maternal iron homeostasis, not placental dysfunction, is associated with fetal hypoxia at e13.5 in obese mouse pregnancy physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

There are many reasons pregnant women can develop gestational diabetes & researchers from @ims-mrl.bsky.social are investigating interventions that can be used to mitigate the condition. Dr @dftwinn.bsky.social Dr Adriana Paz Cordona Casanova Dr Lais Vales Mennetti Listen - buff.ly/7Kymdzy

An excellent podcast from the @ozannelab.bsky.social at @ims-mrl.bsky.social in the lead up to #WorldDiabetesDay 2025

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...