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Obesity meeting attendees

The MRC held a meeting of its leading obesity researchers on 29 January 2010 to develop a set of priorities for MRC obesity research, taking into account current activities, opportunities, tractability and clinical relevance; and, based on this, to agree a realistic plan of action for MRC obesity research, including priorities for investment (and their justification), engaging with and influencing stakeholders, and collaboration with other funders.

Chair

  • Professor Stephen Holgate, University of Southampton; Chair of MRC Population and Systems Medicine Board (PSMB)

Members

  • Professor Steve O’Rahilly, University of Cambridge; Director of MRC Centre for Obesity and Related Diseases; Chair of MRC Translation Overview Group
  • Professor Carol Dezateux, Institute of Child Health, University College London; Director of MRC Centre for Epidemiology for Child Health; Chair of MRC Training and Careers Overview Group
  • Professor Dominic Withers, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
  • Professor Paul Trayhurn University of Liverpool and University of Buckingham; member of PSMB
  • Professor David Leon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; deputy chair of PSMB
  • Dr Susan Jebb, MRC Human Nutrition Research Unit
  • Professor Debbie Lawlor University of Bristol; deputy director of MRC Centre for Causal Analysis in Translational Epidemiology; member of PSMB
  • Professor Iain Robinson, MRC National Institute for Medical Research
  • Professor John Speakman, University of Aberdeen
  • Professor Keith Frayn, University of Oxford
  • Professor Steve Bloom, Imperial College London

Observer

  • Ms Christine McGuire, Department of Health

Priorities for MRC obesity research Mechanisms of obesity and associated disease Neuroscience of obesity Prevention and intervention: obesity and links to disease Physical activity Ethnicity and obesity Bariatric surgery as a research tool Global health Method development (including dietary behaviour)