Paediatrics: University of Cambridge

Paediatrics is a rapidly expanding department where clinical research fellows work closely alongside their colleagues in basic science, on a wide range of physiological, genetic and metabolic studies of child development.

Key research areas

Clinical research

• Genetic and hormonal control of human sex development
• Early detection of diabetic complications
• Genetic and hormonal regulation of size at birth and childhood growth
• Physiology of the growth hormone insulin - like growth factor/axis
• Metabolic adaptations to brain injury

Basic science research

• Mechanisms of sex determination
• Studies of environmental endocrine disruptors
• Imprinted genes and the regulation of growth
• Genetic and metabolic studies of childhood diabetes and obesity.

Research collaborations

• Prof John Todd, Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (Diabetes)
• Prof Steve O'Rahilly, Department of Medicine (Obesity Studies)
• Dr John Schwabe, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester (Nuclear Receptors)
• Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge (Developmental Psychopathology)
• Dr Melissa Hines, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Cambridge (Psychology)
• Prof John Pickard, Department of Neurosurgery, Cambridge (Brain Imaging)
• Dr Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
• Prof David Neal, Department of Oncology, Cambridge
• Prof David Owens (Llandough Hospital, Cardiff)