METABOLISM - Key Persons
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge and MRC Epidemiology Unit
- Honorary Consultant
Ken Ong leads the Unit's Growth and Development programme. His research identified rapid postnatal growth, weight gain and reproductive timing as determinants of, and also potential targets for the prevention of, childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes and related disorders. Much of his work studies the mechanisms that underlie these developmental trajectories to disease risk. He works closely with the Unit's other research programmes in the aetiology of diabetes and related metabolic disorders and in the development and testing of behavioural interventions to prevent childhood obesity.
As well as his research work, Ken is an honorary consultant paediatric endocrinologist and the clinical lead for childhood obesity at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD in Paediatrics following research at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, using large population-based studies to explore gene-environment interactions in fetal and early childhood growth. Ken has been with the MRC Epidemiology Unit since 2005.
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Developmental Biology, Epidemiology, Epigenetics, Endocrinology, Genetics
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- Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft Research
Junaid is the Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft Research and a practicing physician in the NHS (the UK's National Health Service). He was previously the Global Lead for Strategic Alliances and Solutions for the Global Digital Centre of Excellence at Merck Sharp & Dohme, where he led a range of strategic initiatives to improve patient care, including establishment of internal partnerships across the enterprise and external partnerships across the health care ecosystem. He cofounded "VelocityHealth" as Europe's first prevention focused digital-health accelerator, in partnership with Telefonica, and led his team to deliver the "NHS Testbed" in partnership with Verily Life Sciences (part of Alphabet), which the Health Service Journal recognized as the "Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS" in 2018.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Wellcome - MRC Institute of Metabolic Science - Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and CRUK Cambridge Institute