Endocrine Abstracts

The lecture is about the journey which has led me to a career in obesity medicine. My interest in chemistry and molecules made biochemistry an easy choice to pursue as a first degree. What followed was a change in direction towards banking and finance, a world which opened up opportunities but could not suppress a strong desire to study Medicine. My PhD was all about gut hormones and appetite control, at a time when obesity was not recognized as a disease and there were no effective treatments. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to continue the journey into the science and clinical trials of gut hormone therapies, now approved as effective treatments in the NHS for people living with obesity.