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Research areas

Nutrition

Nutrition

Imperial’s Nutrition and Food Network is promoting food and nutrition as a primary means of preventing and managing nutrition-related illnesses including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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Research areas

Obesity and appetite control

Obesity and appetite control

Imperial has active programmes in the understanding of feeding and the control of body weight, including the development of new therapies based on “incretin” hormones released from the gut.

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Pancreatic islet biology and diabetes

Pancreatic islet biology and diabetes

Focussing on the biology of the pancreatic islet beta cell, whose failure is central to all forms of diabetes, the Pancreatic Islet Biology Consortium develops new insights which can be leveraged towards innovative new therapies.

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General enquiries

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