Meet the Obesity Clinical Research Team

Professor Sadaf Farooqi

I am interested in understanding how genes may affect the way the body handles the food that we eat, hormone levels and metabolism.

We have shown that mutations disrupting the hormone leptin and its downstream neural targets cause hyperphagia and severe childhood obesity.

We have developed new diagnostics for a range of obesity syndromes and an NHS Obesity Gene Panel is now available for use by Physicians in the UK

A clinical nurse who oversees all day-to-day aspects of delivering our clinical research studies, including recruitment and coordination. She also supervise specialist tests measuring energy expenditure, body composition and eating behaviour. Another focus of her role is the support of patients who are enrolled on commercial trials.