Rate My Professor Sadaf Farooqi

Sadaf Farooqi, MB ChB (Hons), PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS, is Professor of Metabolism and Medicine and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge. She earned her medical degree from the University of Birmingham in 1993, Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996, PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2001, and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008. As a clinician-scientist and Honorary Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Addenbrooke's Hospital, she has pioneered research into the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying obesity and thinness. Her seminal discoveries include the first mutations causing severe human obesity, such as those disrupting leptin signalling and the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) pathway, revealing hyperphagia and impaired satiety as key drivers. Farooqi's group leads the Genetics of Obesity Study (GOOS) with over 7,000 participants and the Study Into the Legacy of Thinness (STILTS) with 4,000 individuals. This work has enabled precision diagnostics via the NHS Obesity Gene Panel and treatments like setmelanotide for rare genetic obesities.