Professor Robert Semple
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Prof Semple is Professor of Translational Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Diabetologist/Endocrinologist with NHS Lothian. He trained in Biochemistry and then in Medicine in Cambridge, with clinical postgraduate training in London and Cambridge, including a PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Sir Stephen O’Rahilly.
Over the past 15 years his clinical and research interests have centred on acquired and monogenic forms of insulin resistance, lipodystrophy and hypoglycaemia. He aims to use such rare human conditions to improve understanding of common “insulin resistance”, and of the mechanisms linking it to major disease, and on translating research findings into clinical benefits for patients.
Over the past 15 years his clinical and research interests have centred on acquired and monogenic forms of insulin resistance, lipodystrophy and hypoglycaemia. He aims to use such rare human conditions to improve understanding of common “insulin resistance”, and of the mechanisms linking it to major disease, and on translating research findings into clinical benefits for patients.
