Oxford Metabolic Health

3D projection of a series of images from a mouse islet showing alpha cells (green), delta cells (red) and beta cells (magenta)

Oxford researchers are tackling type 1 diabetes from many angles to understand why pancreatic cells are destroyed in the disease and aim to apply this to preventing as well as treating the disease.

This theme spans a number of research areas investigating molecular through to behavioural aspects of nutrition and diet.

Research groups in Oxford are using a wide range of approaches to investigate obesity and understand how to prevent and treat it.

Underpinning many disciplines, this theme encompasses the study of metabolic processes in different systems and using a range of approaches.

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AIMday in Healthy Ageing - registration for academics now open

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Achieving Type 2 diabetes treatment targets would improve health and reduce healthcare costs

updates and opportunities

Internal opportunities

Friday 23 August, 12pm, Sherrington Library, DPAG. 'A physicist’s adventures in magnetic resonance, or crossing disciplines is (mostly) rewarding!’ - Dr David Hoult, Winnipeg, Canada.

BHF visit for an early career funding workshop - Thursday 19 September, DPAG. Aimed at researchers and support staff working across the cardiovascular research spectrum. For more details and registration see the Oxford Cardiovascular Science website.

External opportunities

Diabetes UK funding call for PhD studentships (deadline 31 August) and a strategic research call on 'Diabetes and eating disorders' (deadline 23 September).

European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) and Lilly European Diabetes Research Programme to promote increased European diabetes research, supporting applications within any area of basic or clinical diabetes research. Application deadline is Monday 2 September.