👏Many congratulations👏 to Professor Sadaf Farooqi @farooqi-lab.bsky.social for being honoured with the prestigious Gerald D Aurbach Award by the Endocrine Society for Outstanding Translational Research More👉 bit.ly/46gFx1d @ims-mrl.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

Professor Farooqi to receive 2026 Laureate Award from @endocrinesociety.bsky.social! Details on Endocrine Society website and here: www.goos.org.uk/resource-cen...

🙌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

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.

Congratulations on the paper More details here 👇👇👇 www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/human-g...

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/...

New research from Constanza Alcaino @ims-mrl.bsky.social and colleagues! Human gut organoids reveal how enterochromaffin cells sense & respond to stimuli to control how our gut moves and feels. #GutBrainAxis #Serotonin #Neurogastroenterology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My project from my PhD has been published in Gut BMJ today! The paper highlights an understudied gut hormone INSL5 has a role in chronic diarrhoea, in particular bile acid diarrhoea and a subset of patients with IBS. @richard-kay.bsky.social @ims-mrl.bsky.social gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

👉East Anglia Researchers! There is still time to book onto the FREE PPI Training Sessions! 👉 Next session is Avoiding Tokenism - Tue 19 Aug! 👉 Book via bit.ly/Trg4PPI @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @ims-mrl.bsky.social @jameslindalliance.bsky.social @milnerinst.bsky.social @mrcepid.bsky.social

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.

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

Professor Sue Ozanne, Director of the @ims-mrl.bsky.social was co-author on this important report www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/childs-...

I’m happy to share that I’ve recently started a new position as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at @ims-mrl.bsky.social For more information about my project, read here: www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-mat...

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’.

We recently welcomed Dr Alexander Mörseburg to the CEU! In his previous work with @ims-mrl.bsky.social & @mrcepid.bsky.social he built a protein-based “aging clock” using data from 44k+ people. Having #type2diabetes & higher #BMI were associated with faster biological aging 👉 tinyurl.com/4uhse44v

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’‬

🚨 Abstract deadline for the 7th International Melanocortin Meeting is this week - 6th June 2025 🚨 💥 8 Speaker slots available for selected abstracts 💥 www.melanocortinmeeting.org/abstracts/ The exciting programme can be viewed here: www.melanocortinmeeting.org/programme/

EVENT 👉Patient & Public Involvement in Discovery & Pre-Clinical Health Research - Panel Discussion 📅 Thurs 12 June ⏲️ 3.30 - 4.30pm📍Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical BOOK 👉 bit.ly/Pre-ClinPPIp... @cuh.nhs.uk @camneuro.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @scicambridge.bsky.social @ims-mrl.bsky.social @mrclmb.bsky.social

Congratulations to our own Professor Frank Reimann 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 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...

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

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’

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...

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.

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

📢 Job Vacancy! Institute of Metabolic Science @ims-mrl.bsky.social are looking for a Research Nurse to join their team. Applications open until 30th May! >>> For more info: bit.ly/4iIkrNo @cuhnhs.bsky.social @mrcepid.bsky.social @stephenorahilly.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

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...

Many congrats You can read more about the research in this field here mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/news/dogs-pr...

👏👏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.

Excellent video @cabannon.bsky.social. Great to see @richard-kay.bsky.social and @AustinPunnoose too from the @ims-mrl.bsky.social

An interview of my colleague @cabannon.bsky.social discussing the kind of work we are supporting at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social Using LC-MS/MS to analyse gut peptides in blood is a real challenge - but a fascinating one. Hopefully we can use this technique to improve the diagnosis of GI disease.

Looking forward to hearing how Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to diagnoses to GP consultations. These are real-life health impacts that will make a huge See more #ShapingAIForEveryone cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-a...

Applications close this coming FRIDAY!! 👇👇👇

@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. 🛜 mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/study-us/tau...

@ims-mrl.bsky.social at the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Over 1,300 people visited our #MetabolicMaze on Saturday to explore the fascinating world of metabolism. Huge thanks to our incredible volunteers & all our visitors. Until next year-we will keep inspiring, engaging, and making science fun.

We have a postdoc position available in our team to undertake a UKRI-funded project to develop a new cultured skeletal muscle model for studying glc metabolism and insulin action. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50597/ @ims-mrl.bsky.social Please RT. Please email if interested.

Join @ims-mrl.bsky.social scientists this Saturday (22nd March) at our family-friendly @cambridgefestival.bsky.social drop-in event. Explore the complex pathways of metabolism, obesity, and diabetes. Test your avatar, see how it measures up, & gain insights into the science behind metabolic health.

For International Women’s Day, we celebrate the power of determination and passion that drives women to pursue a career in science. Meet Azween Zuraimi, Research Laboratory Technician, @mrcepid.bsky.social #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social

The diversity of voice, experience, and skill brings together women who celebrate and hold each other up. Meet Dr Marta Santos Hernandez, @ims-mrl.bsky.social #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @mrcepid.bsky.social

For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the women of the @ims-mrl.bsky.social, @mrcepid.bsky.social and GDAR Network. Meet Marta Santos Hernández, Research Associate at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social . #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

#IWD2025 - working together to overcome the challenges women face. Advocating for change, equity, and inclusivity paves the way for future generations of women scientists. Meet Ghufran Al Sayed, PhD student, @mrcepid.bsky.social #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social

Since 1911, International Women’s Day has championed the rights of women, and challenged the inequality faced in all walks of like. Meet Sarah Meadows, Lead Analyst and Laboratory Manager, @mrcepid.bsky.social #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social

For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the women of the @ims-mrl.bsky.social, the @mrcepid.bsky.social and GDAR Network. Meet Danaé Nuzzaci, Research Associate at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the women of the @ims-mrl.bsky.social, the @mrcepid.bsky.social and GDAR Network. Meet Agnes Lukasik, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Manager at the IMS-MRL 👉 www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/agnes-... #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the women of the @ims-mrl.bsky.social, the @mrcepid.bsky.social and GDAR Network. Meet JaneKennet, Research Co-ordinator and Nurse at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social 👉 mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/jane-k... #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

The diversity of voice, experience, and skill brings together women who celebrate and hold each other up. Meet Dr Nina Abrahams, Research Associate, Global Diet and Activity Research Network #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social @mrcepid.bsky.social

This International Women’s Day we celebrate the women who came before us to forge the paths we now tread. Meet Professor @jeanmadams.bsky.social, Professor of Dietary Public Health, @mrcepid.bsky.social. #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social

For International Women’s Day, we celebrate the power of determination and passion that drives women to pursue a career in science. Meet Natalia Wladyslawa Piaszczyk, Biorepository Laboratory Manager, @mrcepid.bsky.social #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social