Professor Jaswinder Sethi

Undergraduate

• BM Yr1-5 - Personal Academic Tutor
• BM Yr2 MEDI2042-33369 Gastrointestinal (GI) Module - Deputy Module Lead
• BM Yr3 MEDI3048-34008 BM Research Project Module - Supervisor of laboratory projects

Postgraduate 

• MRes Stem Cells Development and Regenerative Medicine (SCDRM) - Supervisor of laboratory projects
• Integrated PhD (iPhD) in Biomedical Science MEDI6232 - Deputy Programme Lead
• Integrated PhD (iPhD) Research Project A - Module lead
• Integrated PhD (iPhD) Research Project B - Module lead
• Integrated PhD (iPhD) - School Lead (FoM-HDH)
• PhD - Supervisor

Received primary and secondary education in London and graduated with a First-Class Honours in Biological Sciences from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1993. During this time also held a full-time technical research post at University College London with Prof. Andre McLean. In 1997, obtained a DPhil in physiological sciences from Oxford University - supervised by Antony Galione. Postdoctoral training took place at Harvard University and focused on the mechanisms of obesity-related insulin resistance with Gokhan Hotamisligil. Returning to the UK in 2000, joined Cambridge University, and established a research group investigating Immunometabolic Signalling in Tissue Remodelling and Metabolic Disease. After a career break, the laboratory relocated to University of Southampton in 2017. Have been successively, a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, Wellcome Trust Prize Travelling Fellow, RD Lawrence Fellow, a David Phillips Fellow, a Cambridge Senior Scholar and a Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellow.

Prizes

• MRC PhD Studentship (1993)
• British Fulbright Senior Scholarship (1997)
• Wellcome Trust International Prize Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997)
• Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Research Fellowship (2001)
• BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellowship (2001)
• Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowship (2017)
• Honorary NHS Research Fellow in Metabolic Medicine (2006)
• Cambridge Senior Teaching Scholar in Medicine (2004)
• Honorary member of The Biochemical Society (2007-2016) (2007)
• Biochemistry Society Stay Connected Bursary (2015)