Food Fight: novel approaches to appetite control at the School of Medicine Teaching Awards 

Any questions, please email Fran Bertolini,f.bertolini@imperial.ac.ukSince 2003,Imperial College School of Medicinetogether with ICSMSU have held an annual awards programme recognising the valued contributions of clinical teachers and support staff in delivering our undergraduate medicine course.The awards evening also provides a platform to showcase and celebrate a new professor, who gives an inaugural lecture as part of Imperial's'Meet our new professors'. The lecture represents a significant milestone in an academic's career and provides an opportunity to present an overview of their research career so far, update colleagues on current and future research plans, and introduce their research to wider audiences.Each year we invite one of our professors to give their inaugural lecture: this year we are proud to inviteProfessor Kevin Murphyto give his lecture: "Waistline Weapons: novel approaches to appetite control".

School of Medicine, Imperial College London

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Event Schedule
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<LI>17.15 - Tea reception</LI>
<LI>17.45 - Seats</LI>
<LI>18.00 - Presenting of Awards</LI>
<LI>18.30 - Lecture</LI>
<LI>19.30 - Drinks reception (with canapes) </LI>
</UL>
Abstract
 
Obesity is one of the most significant contemporary health concerns in the UK, affecting around a quarter of adults. In attempts to understand underlying mechanisms, scientists globally are looking to the biological systems that underpin appetite to explain why we over-eat, and to try to prevent obesity. As obesity levels rise, so has our understanding of how the gut senses particular foods to regulate hunger. In particular, amino acids – the “building blocks of proteins” – seem to help us feel full.
 
Professor Kevin Murphy is a Professor of Endocrinology & Metabolism at Imperial College London, with nearly twenty years’ experience in his field. In his inaugural lecture, he will examine how the gut detects what you have eaten and signals to the brain to influence appetite, arguing that this relationship can determine our eating behaviour. Looking for novel approaches to controlling appetite by hijacking the pathways by which the gut detects protein, Professor Murphy is battling the obesity epidemic by studying what actually happens in the gut when you eat and the molecular mechanisms involved in satiety, and investigating how we can control appetite by hijacking the pathways by which the gut detects protein. The eventual aim is to make foods that are tasty and popular but which punch above their weight, leaving the consumer satisfied even though they have eaten fewer calories.
Biography
<P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Professor Kevin Murphy is a Professor of Endocrinology & Metabolism at Imperial College London.
<P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Professor Kevin Murphy’s research focuses on how the gut senses nutritional status and signals to appetite centres of the brain to regulate food intake.
<P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Professor Murphy has secured funding from numerous sources including the BBSRC, the MRC, the Technology Strategy Board, the Society for Endocrinology, the British Society for Neuroendocrinology, the British Pharmacological Society and the NC3Rs. He has also successfully supervised more than twenty five PhD students to completion.
<P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">He is Course Director for the Intercalated BSc in Endocrinology, Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) for the Department of Medicine, and Admissions Tutor for the Faculty of Medicine with particular responsibility for widening participation.

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