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Sadaf Farooqi is Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
She is an internationally leading Clinician Scientist who has made seminal contributions to understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms that underlie obesity and its complications.
The work of Sadaf Farooqi and her colleagues has fundamentally changed our understanding of how body weight is regulated. With colleagues, she discovered and characterised the first genetic disorders that cause severe childhood obesity and established that the principal driver of obesity in these conditions was a failure of the control of appetite.
Her work is often cited as an exemplar of how the translation of research into the mechanisms of disease can lead to patient benefit. Her research has informed the development of diagnostic tests and n
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Leptin mediates the increase in blood pressure associated with obesity. Simonds SE, Pryor JT, Ravussin E, Greenway FL, Dileone R, Allen AM, Bassi J, Elmquist JK, Keogh JM, Henning E, Myers MG Jr, Licinio J, Brown RD, Enriori PJ, O'Rahilly S, Sternson SM, Grove KL, Spanswick DC, Farooqi IS, Cowley MA. Cell. Dec 4;(6)
20 years of leptin: human disorders of leptin action. Farooqi IS, O'Rahilly S. J Endocrinol. Oct;(1):T
Obesity-associated melanocortin-4 receptor mutations are associated with changes in the brain response to food cues. van der Klaauw AA, von dem Hagen EA, Keogh JM, Henning E, O'Rahilly S, Lawrence AD, Calder AJ, Farooqi IS. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. Oct;99(10):E
Functional characterization of obesity-associated variants involving the α and β isoforms of human SH2B1. Pearce LR, Joe R, Doche ME, Su HW, Keogh JM, Henning E, Argetsinger LS, Bochukova EG, Cline JM, Garg S, Saeed S, Shoelson S, O'Rahilly S, Barroso I, Rui L, Farooqi IS, Carter-Su C. Endocrinology. S
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Sadaf Farooqi
British consultant physician
Ismaa Sadaf FarooqiFMedSci FRS fryst vatten a Wellcome Trust Senior Research fellow[2] in Clinical Science, professor of Metabolism and medicin at the University of Cambridge and a consultant physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK.[1][3][4][5]
Education
[edit]Farooqi was educated at the University of Birmingham where she studied medicin, and was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in [3] After working as a pre-registration house officer and senior house officer,[3] she moved into research and was awarded a PhD in from the University of Cambridge for research on the genetics of severe childhood obesity.[6][7]
Research
[edit]Farooqi's research investigates the genetics of obesity.[8][9][10][11] Using candidate genes funnen in patients with severe obesity, her research g