Fredrik Karpe
MD/PhD, FRCP
Professor of Metabolic Medicine
- Head of OCDEM
- Honorary Consultant Physician
Oxford Laboratory for Integrative Physiology (Oxlip)
I head the Metabolic Research Group together with Associate Professor Leanne Hodson. My research is focussed on human adipose tissue function and the metabolic consequences of obesity. With increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, this is an area of unmet clinical need. We are intrigued by strong epidemiological data suggesting opposite associations between the risk of both diabetes and cardiovascular disease vs. upper and lower body obesity. The current research line aims to clarify protective role of gluteofemoral adipose tissue and the metabolically detrimental role of abdominal adipose tissue by studying the tissues at both cellular and whole body level. If one could impose the specialized features of gluteofemoral fat to other tissues, this may lead to interesting new therapeutic approaches.
Recent publications
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High-throughput mass spectrometry maps the sepsis plasma proteome and differences in response
Mi Y. et al, (2022)
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Possible mediators of metabolic endotoxemia in women with obesity and women with obesity-diabetes in The Gambia.
Journal article
Jobe M. et al, (2022), Int J Obes (Lond)
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HOTAIR interacts with PRC2 complex regulating the regional preadipocyte transcriptome and human fat distribution.
Journal article
Kuo F-C. et al, (2022), Cell Rep, 40
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Increased Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Relation to Adiposity in Middle-Aged Black South African Men compared to Women
Kufe CN. et al, (2021)
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The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids
Journal article
LIN K. et al, (2021), Nature
ORCID
0000-0002-2751-1770