Seminars
How brain circuits control body weight
Monday 3 March 16:00 until 17:00
Genome Seminar Room
Speaker: Lora Heisler
Part of the series: Sussex Neuroscience Seminar Series
The UK is the most obese nation in Europe, with a quarter of us meeting the criteria for clinical obesity and more than half of us being overweight. The rapid escalation in the UK prevalence of obesity and the paucity of obesity medications underscores the necessity of an understanding of the basic neurobiology underlying body weight.
Professor Lora Heisler’s laboratory investigates the brain circuits that are the master controller of energy balance in an effort to identify new targets amenable to obesity pharmacotherapy. Career highlights range from the identification of a mechanistically novel treatment for type 2 diabetes to a characterisation of the specific therapeutic mechanism of the former global obesity treatment d-fenfluramine. Professor Heisler will discuss why is it so difficult to lose weight yet all too easy to gain back those extra pounds and whether new weight loss drugs on the horizon can help.
Host Pete Clifton.
All welcome.
By: Fiona Hurd
Last updated: Monday, 12 May 2014