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Endocrinology and Diabetes

Training opportunities

Training opportunities in Endocrinology and Diabetes include:

• Clinical experience in diabetes technology clinics (pumps, CGM, Hybrid close loop), bariatric MDT, and general and specialist aspects of diabetes and endocrinology
• Experience in supporting clinical trials
• Ethics and R&D application
• Writing study proposal and design
• Basic statistics, systematic review and meta-analysis experience
• Experience in large database analysis
• Experience in UK national audits on new technology and therapies in diabetes
• Muscle & fat biopsy
• Laboratory technique for ELISA, mulitplex assay (to measure insulin, gut hormones etc)
• Mixed meal test
• Euglycaemic hyperinsulinaemia clamp technique
• Experience of running study days in MRI department
• Muscle strength assessments, muscle ultrasound assessments, mitochondrial analysis of muscle biopsy specimens
• Exercise intervention studies
• Basic science studies in the lab using cell lines and cellular models

Research interests and projects

Research interests and projects at the University of Nottingham include:

• The role of CGM, hybrid close loops and insulin pumps to improve glucose control in type 1 diabetes, renal failure patients on dialysis, young type 2 diabetes and type 2 diabetes
• The role of CGM to facilitate weight loss in obesity
• Clinical study to investigate the effects of multifactorial intervention (dietary, exercise, drugs, psychology) on glucose and vascular outcomes in young type 2 diabetes patients
• Novel therapeutic, lifestyle and exercise interventions to improve cardio-metabolic outcomes in obese patients with or without diabetes
• Studies to investigate effects of therapeutic, lifestyle and exercise interventions on muscle mass, function and metabolism
• The impact of calorie restriction of glucose and muscle metabolism

Find out more

For more information about Endocrinology and Diabetes research please contact either Professor Iskandar Idris (Academic Programme Director) or Clinical Associate Professor Emma Wilmot.

Contact Iskandar Idris

Contact Emma Wilmot