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Professor of Molecular Physiology and Metabolism, University of Leeds. Diabetes, obesity, heart failure, metabolism, adipose, exercise and muscle.

Leeds, England
Joined September 2016
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Lee Roberts
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RT @ThePhySoc: 🎉 Celebrating our Michael J Rennie Oral Communication Prize winners 🌟 . 👏 Congratulations to our joint winners, Michael Macl….
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Lee Roberts
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We have a new postdoc opportunity to work on interorgan lipokine signalling. Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Adipose Tissue Interorgan Metabolic Signalling
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Faculty of Medicine and HealthLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic MedicineAre you a postdoctoral researcher with a keen interest in molecular physiology and metabolism in health and...
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Lee Roberts
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A pleasure to present our @DUK_research @The_MRC @TheBHF @BBSRC funded work on Metabokine interorgan signalling in health and disease @ThePhySoc Physiology of Obesity Meeting. Wonderful few days catching up with colleagues.
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Lee Roberts
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Congratulations to @MaccannellA on her Michael J Rennie Oral Communication Prize @ThePhySoc Physiology of Obesity: From Mechanisms to Medicine Meeting. @UoL_LICAMM @UniversityLeeds @TheBHF
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RT @ExpPhysiol: Anna Malicka, Aysha Ali, @MaccannellA and @Roberts_Lab (@UoL_LICAMM) explore the the inter-organ signalling mechanisms of b….
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RT @DUK_research: It was so lovely to host our annual PhD Student Networking Day at our office today🥰. We felt so inspired and motivated by….
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Lee Roberts
3 months
Congratulations to our PhD student @hsmithii on winning best oral prize at the @BSCResearch meeting today. Well done Hannah!.
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British Society for Cardiovascular Research
3 months
The best part of the day! . Best poster prize goes to Dr Azziza Zaabalawi from Manchester Metropolitan . Best oral presentation goes to Hannah Smith from University of Leeds, 2nd year in a row!. Thanks everyone for attending! Hope to see you soon at our Spring/Summer meeting!
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RT @hsmithii: Excellent day at the @BSCResearch ECR symposium, returning to my Biomed days at the University of Birmingham. Lots of interes….
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RT @NTU_Metabolism: Congratulations to @ZoiMic and @Hagberglab.for leading the issue on the "Adipose tissue-driven inter-organ metabolite c….
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RT @ThePhySoc: 🚀 Don't miss your chance to present at our #PhysiologyOfObesity meeting on 8-9 July @UniofNottingham. We're seeking abstra….
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Lee Roberts
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RT @Harvard: “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit….
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No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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Lee Roberts
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Application of CIBERSORTx and BayesPrism to deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq data from human myocardium and skeletal muscle: Heliyon
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RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) is an important tool to explore molecular mechanisms of disease. Technological advances mean this can be performed at the single-cell level, but the large sample sizes needed...
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RT @ShaimaaAdelGad1: After presenting in European (EASL) and American ( AASLD) associations of liver diseases in 2024, I am delighted to pa….
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Lee Roberts
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RT @Peter_Aldiss: Registration open for for our (@cld536) @ThePhySoc meeting in July. Speakers inc. @Hodson_Group.@joedwardlewis.@lab_co….
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Lee Roberts
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RT @janecyluk: Glad to share my PhD thesis project is just published!.Thankful for all the valuable input from co-authors. We reported that….
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Nature Communications - Here the authors show that lowering IGF-1R levels in endothelial cells improves insulin sensitivity, boosts energy use, and supports beneficial changes in adipose tissue,...
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Lee Roberts
7 months
Metabolite-mediated inter-tissue signalling. Led by @janecyluk @MedicineDean in @UoL_LICAMM published in @NatureComms, we identify malonic acid as an IGF1R-regulated endothelial-to-adipocyte metabokine mediating adipose metabolism. Great start to 2025.
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Nature Communications - Here the authors show that lowering IGF-1R levels in endothelial cells improves insulin sensitivity, boosts energy use, and supports beneficial changes in adipose tissue,...
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Lee Roberts
7 months
Yesterday I had the huge pleasure of delivering my Inaugural Lecture as Professor @LeedsMedHealth @UniversityLeeds @UoL_LICAMM in front of my family, friends, colleagues and group. A huge thanks to them for making this possible. I’m excited to see what our future science holds.
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