2024 David James Seminar Announced!
We are delighted to invite our Alumni to attend our seventh annual David James Seminar!
The Annual David James Annual Lecture is the highlight of our department’s weekly seminar series, where we invite superstar speakers to give a detailed and exhilarating talk in their expert areas.
This year’s lecture will be given by Professor Sadaf Farooqi, PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS. The title is “Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Human Weight Regulation”. It will be held on Friday the 23rd of February, from 4 pm – 5 pm, in our Level 2 Seminar Room, as well as being streamed over Zoon.
We encourage you to come along to meet Professor Farooqi!
You can find the David James Seminar, and our Seminar Series via this link: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/department-pharmacology-seminar-series
Biography:
Sadaf Farooqi is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK. 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 altered the 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. She has received a number of awards including the 2024 Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her exceptional contribution to science.