Chunxiao Li is a Research Associate at the Unit, and a lead author on a paper that investigated the association of meat consumption on type two diabetes.  

Dr Charlotte Boughton is a Clinical Researcher at the University of Cambridge,  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS TrustCharlotte’s research focuses on the use of automated insulin delivery systems with the aim of improving outcomes...

Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy for a multitude of reasons, being overweight or obese can be a factor but some may be genetically predisposed to developing the condition.  Researchers from the IMS Metabolic Research Lab...

One point 27 billion people are expected to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by 2050. This week we’ll be hearing from researchers from the MRC Epidemiology Unit and the IMS Metabolic Research Laboratory, at the University of Cambri...

In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr Marie Spreckley shares her journey from the UN to weight loss research.She discusses diverse communities being more involved in research programmes, how drugs for type 2 diabetes are being ...

In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr Cara Ruggiero shares her journey from Nutritionist to an Early Career Researcher.She discusses the importance of knowing "your why" and lays out her personal map for working to solve the is...

In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr Thomas Burgoine shares how creating healthy neighbourhoods can help people make healthy choices. NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) funded researchers have developed a t...

Dr David Ogilvie, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator in the Population Health Interventions group, talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis. They discuss how we evaluate complex interventions and phenomena; how we put...

June 2019. Dr Jean Adams, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator in the Population Health Interventions group talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis about how we might improve the nation’s diet, the politics of what we ...

Dr Felix Day, Senior Research Associate in the Early Life Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders group talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis about genetics, puberty and unusual career trajectories.&nb...

New research from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol has found that adolescents consume around two-thirds of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods – UPFs.The study’s first author, Dr Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde from the MRC Ep...