Meet the GutHHD Clinical Research Team

Prof Fiona Gribble – Principal Investigator

In collaboration with Frank Reimann our group researches how gut hormones are released and their actions on target tissues. We hope this will lead to the development of new drugs or diets that treat diabetes and obesity by targeting gut hormone release. 

In our clinical studies, we are interested in how nutrition affects patterns of postprandial gut hormones, and the potential impact on food intake and glucose homeostasis, as well as gut hormone disturbances in conditions such as bile acid diarrhoea and IBS.  

Dr Chris Bannon – Main Study Contact

I am a clinical reserarch associate and registrar in metabolic medicine.  My research interests are in investigating understudied gut hormones, in particular those which control gut movements, and assess how their levels differ in different conditions and how they are related do different gut symptoms.

I have designed the GutHHD protocols, and have run the completed gut hormone studies in healthy volunteers and meal studies in patients with bile acid diarrhoea.

I am currently running the study for volunteers starting weight management injections, the single sample study for patients with different bowel conditions and the MRI study.

Dr Htar Htar Hlaing – Clinical Researcher

I am a gastroenterology trainee in the East of England with special interest in nutrition, intestinal failure and intestinal transplant.

My current research focus on gut hormone responses in patients with short bowel syndrome and intestinal transplant. My research is driven by the need for improved metabolic insights and therapeutic strategies for patients coping with this complex condition.

I am currently running the study for patients with short bowel syndrome, small bowel transplants and patients with stomas.