Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction
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The Dept of Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction delivers outstanding medical research & top quality education. @ImperialCollege @ImperialMed
Imperial College London
Joined May 2019
Detecting #cancer earlier saves lives. Researchers, clinicians and patient partners came together at @ImperialAHSC to explore new approaches to early cancer detection – from #AI and liquid biopsies to genetic screening. More 👉 https://t.co/nlZp5CkmXz
#CancerAwareness
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Congratulations Dr @SughaMuru!
Congratulations to @SughaMuru for gaining her PhD at Imperial College London @ImperialMDR Well deserved! Tremendous amount of work and independent thought. Honoured to have been part of the journey with @proftombourne, our mentor and leader.
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Very pleased to see out this important consensus statement on #cholangiocarcinoma #CCA now out in @NatRevGastroHep, including input from our own Prof Shahid Khan and Dr Mather Vithayathil @ImperialMDR @ImperialSandC: https://t.co/bwx4PihaAL
@CharityAMMF
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A real landmark for us working on the #MAST trial - exploring the impact of capsulised #IMT #FMT before #HSCT - as we draw recruitment to a close today, fully recruited @ImperialMDR @IHepatology
The #MAST trial is pushing forward, investigating the impact of #IMT #FMT prior to #HCT in seven UK centres. Find out more from our poster or our website: https://t.co/T1NW5FLd49
@IHepatology @ImperialMDR @bloodcancer_uk @AnthonyNolan
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The first @DUK_research supported type 1 diabetes #stigma papers, undertaken at @ImperialMDR, is published in Diabetic Medicine here https://t.co/LkF1DMvLx7 🔓. Important insights for healthcare professionals from work led by Dr Vicky McKechnie and recruited from @ADDRESS_T1DRes
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Aims Type 1 diabetes stigma (T1D-stigma), the negative social judgements towards people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), is linked to poor psychological well-being and suboptimal diabetes self-ma...
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Research led by Imperial (@TomasLab_ICL) has uncovered a hidden cellular mechanism that explains how widely used type 2 diabetes drugs signal to protect the pancreas, opening up new possibilities for improving future diabetes therapies. ⬇️ https://t.co/iTbYRGg6Cn
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Research led by Imperial has uncovered a hidden cellular mechanism that explains how widely used type 2 diabetes drugs signal to protect the pancreas...
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Imperial-led team has uncovered a surprising ally in the fight against insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes: a microbial metabolite called trimethylamine (TMA) ⬇️ https://t.co/AcsMBYUIWa
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Imperial-led team uncovers TMA’s role in blunting inflammation and improving metabolic health.
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👥 "We must continue to push for #inclusivity in research." Dr @ChiomaIzzi-Engbeaya from @ImperialMDR & @ImperialNHS reminds us that women and older adults cannot be an afterthought in metabolic #health. #WomenInSTEM @imperialcollege
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Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya from Imperial's Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction explores how decades of research into obesity and metabolic health are beginning to translate into better...
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Great to see @lukelikeslivers giving a masterclass on his work on perturbed #bile acid metabolism in severe alcohol related #hepatitis in the #BASIC meeting today 👏🏻 @ImperialMDR @AlchepUK
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500+ million people worldwide live with #diabetes – but new research offers hope. Imperial-led team has uncovered a surprising ally in the fight against insulin resistance and #T2Diabetes: a microbial metabolite called trimethylamine (TMA0) ⬇️ https://t.co/AcsMBYVgLI
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Imperial-led team uncovers TMA’s role in blunting inflammation and improving metabolic health.
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It was good to talk with Frances Davies at the @ImperialAHSC webinar and discuss our work on the gut #microbiome, #FMT and #AMR! And looking forward to the results of the #MAST trial as we near completion of recruitment @ImperialMDR @IHepatology @EurFmt @ImperialBRC
Join Dr Ben Mullish, honorary consultant in hepatology and gastroenterology, and Dr Frances Davies, consultant microbiologist, and hear about research into multidrug resistant bacteria in the latest @ImperialAHSC webinar on 5 December from 12.00-13.00. ➡️ https://t.co/YZntXaH8DK
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The festive wisdom begins! 🎄✨ In the first of our Three Wise Women blog series, Dr @ChiomaIzzi-Engbeaya highlights new insights into #obesity, metabolic #health & why inclusivity in research matters. More 👇 @imperialcollege @ImperialNHS @ImperialMDR
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Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya from Imperial's Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction explores how decades of research into obesity and metabolic health are beginning to translate into better...
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Donor screening for #FMT gets ever more complicated, but is there rationale for this? Great to play a part in this critical appraisal and international Delphi process on this issue, now out in @Gut_BMJ: https://t.co/v2S9Op3Nvf
@EdKuijper2 @IHepatology @ImperialMDR @EurFmt
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Endometrial cancer is rising & early detection is hard. A new MDR led paper shows that a mass-spec imaging method can accurately tell cancer from non-cancer tissue & may spot risk before cancer appears - potentially transforming diagnosis & surgery ⬇️ https://t.co/PHBXtkFZvn
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Novel technologies are required to improve endometrial cancer diagnosis and enhance the early detection of preinvasive precursors. Herein, desorpti...
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Great to see out this study from Sharmili Balarajah and Laura Martinez-Gili @ImperialMDR, working with the @IBD_BioResource, comparing outcomes with #IBD therapies in UK White and South Asian patients, now in @eClinicalMed: https://t.co/kNPZXgIZit
@IHepatology @ImperialBRC
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MDR’s Dr Tamas @KorcsmarosLab welcomed @BBCTech Now to the Gut-on-Chip Centre to see how we can grow a living mini-gut in the lab – creating a powerful tool for revealing why diseases and treatments impact patients in different ways. Watch from 14min ⬇️ https://t.co/z2s8EYoaNg
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❗I’m hiring a post-doc computational data analyst to join my group at Imperial College London 🎉 You’ll help deliver hashtag#MetricT1D, a real-world data project on type 1 diabetes that we’ve just had generously funded by Breakthrough T1D. 🏁 What we’re offering: - 12-month
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Students from @imperialcollege learn power of patient and public voices in surgical research S&C's @imperial_SoM iBSc medical students learn firsthand how patient and public involvement (PPIE) is reshaping the future of surgical research. Find out more⬇️ https://t.co/WV9i4sVq4s
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Imperial medical students learn firsthand how patient and public involvement is reshaping the future of surgical research.
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MDR's @NickPowellLab has recruited its first participants to the ACESO trial within 24 hours of launch! 🎉 The study tests if adding upadacitinib to steroids can improve outcomes in acute severe ulcerative colitis. Sponsored by @ibdhull, led by @ibdseb & funded by @AbbVie. #IBD
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Exciting joint BSDB/Genesis Research Trust Symposium on Environmental and Metabolic Control of Stem Cells & Development 📅 4th December 2025 📍MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital Campus Register now⬇️ https://t.co/gFnbCll6fg
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This joint British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) and Genesis Research Trust (GRT) symposium aims to bring together and grow the community working on the in vitro modelling of development...
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