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ABSTRACT

Since 2010, he is professor of type 2 metabolic aspects of type 2 diabetes mellitus at the NUTRIM school for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism. For his research, he was awarded with the young investigator award of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) in 2001, the Silver Medal award of the British Nutrition Society in 2006, the Rising Star Award of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in 2008 and the Corona Gallina Award for excellence in diabetes research in 2013, and the prestigious MINKOWSKI Prize of the EASD (2016), for his distinct contributions to advance the knowledge on diabetes. Over the past 10 years Dr. Timpson has had major roles in genetic association studies for BMI, overweight and obesity, birth weight, lipid profile, adiponectin, bone health, cortisol, thyroid function, allergic sensitization, educational attainment, and pigmentation.