Professor Robert Semple

Programme Secretary

Robert Semple is is Chair of Translational Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He also does outpatient clinical work in diabetes and endocrinology for NHS Lothian. In addition to overseeing biomedical PhD training he spends most of his time running a research programme. His research focuses on how insulin signalling and fat tissue work in health, and how this goes wrong in disease. His research starts with, and focuses on people with rare and severe types of disease, often caused by changes in a single gene. To investigate these fully my lab also studies cells and model organisms.