# Sadaf Farooqi
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(Ismaa) sadaf farooqi FMedSci is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research fellow in Clinical Science, professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and a consultant physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK.
== Education ==
Farooqi was educated at the University of Birmingham where she studied medicine, and was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1993. After working as a pre-registration house officer and senior house officer, she moved into research and was awarded a PhD in 2001 from the University of Cambridge for research on the genetics of severe childhood obesity.
== Research ==
Farooqi's research investigates the genetics of obesity.
Why do we like to eat?
Dr Sadaf Farooqi, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrooke's Hospital will look at the genetic factors which cause human obesity and the dramatic response that patients can experience following leptin therapy, including the critical role this hormone plays in the regulation of human f…
S2.2 Does when I eat affect my weight?
Does when you eat affect your body weight? Do meal-timing based diets like intermittent fasting really work? How are your hormones involved and do these new diet fads stand up to scientific scrutiny?
Listen to Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Professor Jonathan Johnstone and Dr Shazia Hussain to find out …
What makes us fat?
Sadaf Farooqi, Professor of Metabolism and Medicine
In an age of obesity where sugary, fatty food is available 24/7, will it ever be possible to control our appetites? Professor Farooqi will describe how the brain, not the stomach, controls what and how much we eat and how scientists are working to…
Families and children with severe early-onset obesity – Interview with Sadaf Farooqi
In our latest podcast, Professor Sadaf Farooqi discusses the most recent findings from the Genetics Of Obesity Study, and what they mean for families and children with severe early-onset obesity.
Obesity: the gene-environment debate
What role do our genes play in influencing our body weight and what we like to eat? Why do some people gain weight more easily than others, and is it all down to genes or are there other factors at play? In this episode, we talked with a clinician and scientist Sadaf Farooqi, health psychologist Th…
Episode 9 - Genetics
Across 8 episodes of our debut podcast series Unlearn to Learn, we’ve established that obesity is nothing if not a complex disease. Studies have shown that obesity is multifactorial and everything from socio-economic factors to poor mental health can contribute to the increase in cases over the yea…
Hormones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies throughout our lives, produced in separate areas and spreading via the bloodstream. We call these 'hormones' and we produce more than 80 of them of which the best known are arguably oestrogen, testosterone, ad…
Hormones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies throughout our lives, produced in separate areas and spreading via the bloodstream. We call these 'hormones' and we produce more than 80 of them of which the best known are arguably oestrogen, testosterone, ad…
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