Professor David Savage

I am a Principal Investigator and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at the Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories.

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Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are quintessential complex disorders involving hormone action or resistance in several different target issues. Unravelling this complexity is impossible in cultured cells alone and unfortunately whilst many disorders can be reliably modelled in rodents, this is not always the case in insulin resistance where my own work has already highlighted some key interspecies differences (Embo Mol Med 2009). Many different approaches are therefore needed to tackle this complex metabolic problem.  

Recruitment of postgraduate students and research staff 

Training graduate students for a scientific career is a priority at the IMS-MRL. We have a mixture of both basic science students and clinical trainees and aim to provide everyone with a supportive, stimulating research and learning environment. We offer Funded PhD programmes, a PhD in Clinical Biochemistry and a full-time taught MPhil in Obesity, Endocrinology & Metabolism. 

For general enquiries, please contact our postgraduate admin team  

Post-doctoral vacancies are advertised through the University of Cambridge.