Endocrine Abstracts

Robert Semple is a Reader in Endocrinology and Metabolism and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. He read Biochemistry and then Medicine at the University of Cambridge before internal medical posts in London. He returned to Cambridge for specialist training in Diabetes and Endocrinology, interrupted by doctoral studies with Prof. Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, focussing on transcriptional regulation of adipose tissue metabolism.

For the past 12 years he has focussed on rare human disorders of insulin action and growth. His research aims to identify novel acquired or genetic defects underlying insulin resistance and related conditions, both to accelerate diagnosis and to enhance treatment of affected patients, and to draw inferences, through physiological study of affected patients, about the pathobiology of common forms of metabolic disease. This work has played a key part in the establishment of a National Severe Insulin Resistance Service in Cambridge.

Dr Semple is also a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Director of the Cambridge MB PhD programme.