Dr Tim Aitman is MRC Clinical Scientist at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at Hammersmith Hospital. He has used his understanding of physiology, medicine and genetics to dissect insulin resistant phenotypes in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. He discovered that mutations in Cd36 were associated with insulin resistance - a finding that has been confirmed in humans.
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Back to directory listingProfessor Tim Aitman FRSE FMedSci
Job Title
Professor of Molecular Pathology and Genetics
Department
Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Institution
The University of Edinburgh
Year elected
2001
Interests
Specialitiesdiabetes, metabolic medicine, genetic analysis of complex traits and genetically complex human disease
Section committee elected byCellular and developmental biology, microbiology and immunology, genetics
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