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Name
Shareen Forbes
Title
Professor of Diabetic Medicine
Bio
Shareen Forbes is Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Lead Physician of the Islet Transplant Programme in Scotland and Visiting Professor of the Islet Transplant Programme, Edmonton, Canada. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, did specialist registrar training in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine in the North West Thames Rotation and was awarded her PhD from Imperial College London. She was subsequently awarded a Diabetes UK Clinical Intermediate Fellowship examining metabolism in people with glucose intolerance.
Professor Forbes works within a multi-disciplinary diabetes, transplant and cell therapy group; her main research interest is in clinical islet transplantation and her group conducts both laboratory based research as well as studies in people with Type 1 diabetes. Her main goal is to help deliver cell therapies to people living with Type 1 diabetes in order to cure the disease.
Professor Forbes is a member of the Diabetes UK Research Steering Group for Type 1 diabetes, she is the SfE Metabolic and Obesity Network Clinical Convener and is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of The Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation and the JDRF.
Professor Forbes works within a multi-disciplinary diabetes, transplant and cell therapy group; her main research interest is in clinical islet transplantation and her group conducts both laboratory based research as well as studies in people with Type 1 diabetes. Her main goal is to help deliver cell therapies to people living with Type 1 diabetes in order to cure the disease.
Professor Forbes is a member of the Diabetes UK Research Steering Group for Type 1 diabetes, she is the SfE Metabolic and Obesity Network Clinical Convener and is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of The Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation and the JDRF.
