Fiona M Gribble

Dr Gribble is Professor of Endocrine Physiology and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is based in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and Institute of Metabolic Science. She trained in Natural Sciences (Cambridge) and Clinical Medicine (Oxford), and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the Society of Biology. The primary focus of her research is to understand the mechanisms underlying the secretion of gut hormones, with a view to identifying novel targets and pathways in enteroendocrine cells that could be exploited to target endogenous gut hormone release for the treatment of metabolic diseases. Her approaches are based on the use of electrophysiology, fluorescence imaging and molecular biology to study the molecular events involved in stimulus detection and hormone secretion in intestinal endocrine cells. Her work has been recognised by the receipt of several awards, including the Lister Research Prize (2006), the Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Lecture (2008), the EASD Minkowski Prize (2010) and the Viktor Mutt Medal (2012).