Professor Tricia Tan
Imperial College London
Association(s): Diabetes UK
Prof Tricia Tan (BSc MB ChB FRCP PhD FRCPath), Professor of Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology at Imperial College London, graduated from the University of St Andrews in and qualified in medicine from the University of Manchester. She trained in Diabetes and Endocrinology in London and studied with Prof Stephen Bloom for her doctoral research on pancreatic polypeptide. Her research has concentrated on characterizing the physiological effects of human gut hormones on appetite, energy expenditure and glucose homeostasis; the rational design of gut hormone analogues for therapy of obesity and diabetes, and early Phase clinical trials; the physiology of bariatric surgery; and developing assays for gut hormones and other neuropeptides. Her clinical interests lie in the treatment of obesity and diabetes, metabolic complications after bariatric surgery and the management of subfertility associated with obesity and obesity in pregnancy. She is the Director of the UK Supraregional Assay Service Endocrine Laboratory for Gut Hormones, and serves as the Clinical Lead, Biochemistry, and Director of Research for North West London Pathology Consortium.