Dr Jaswinder K Sethi BSc(Hons), DPhil(Oxon), FRSB
Principal Research Fellow in Immunometabolism, Welcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellow, Honorary NHS-Trust Research Fellow
Dr Jaswinder K. Sethi is a Principal Research Fellow in Immunometabolism, a Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellow and an honorary NHS Research Fellow based in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton
Dissecting how tissues sense, translate, and integrate nutritional cues is key to understanding healthy development and finding new therapeutic targets for treating obesity-linked metabolic diseases
Biography
Educated in London and graduated with first-class honours in biological sciences from Birkbeck College, University of London. This part-time degree was completed whilst maintaining a full-time technical research post at University College London. It also planted the seeds and mechanistic interests in cell communication. This led to a DPhil in calcium signalling from Oxford University, followed by postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Here she performed pioneering studies on molecular mechanisms linking obesity and insulin resistance with Gokhan Hotamisligil that catalysed the birth of a new field of research: Immunometabolism. Returning to the UK in 2000, Dr Sethi set up an independent research group at University of Cambridge to investigate Immunometabolic Signalling in Tissue Remodelling and Metabolic Disease. In 2017, the Sethi laboratory relocated to the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Expertise: Immunometabolism, Cellular Signalling, Adipose Tissue Development & Biology, Tissue Remodelling, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer
For more information see Dr Sethi’s Lab website at immunometab.com.
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Qualifications
BSc (Hons), Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College - University of London, 1993
DPhil (Oxon), Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford, 1997
Appointments held
Research Technician, University College London, 1989 – 1993
MRC PhD/DPhil Scholar, Oxford University, 1993 – 1996
US-UK Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University, 1997
Wellcome Trust Prize Postdoctoral Travelling Fellow (Outgoing), Harvard University, 1997 - 1999
Wellcome Trust Prize Postdoctoral Travelling Fellow (Returning), University of Cambridge, 2000 - 2001
Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2001
BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2002 – 2006
Senior Teaching Scholar in Medicine Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 2004 – 2009
Honorary Researcher in Metabolic Medicine, Cambridge University NHS Trust, 2006 - 2014
Principal Investigator & Group Leader, University of Cambridge, 2007-2014
Visiting Professor, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy, 2014