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Professor Sarah Finer, MBBS MRCP PhD

Sarah

Clinical Professor in Diabetes Honorary Consultant in Diabetes

Email: s.finer@qmul.ac.uk  
Telephone: 020 7882 7326

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Sarah studied medicine at University College London, and undertook specialist and academic training in Diabetes and Endocrinology in east London. She was an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and was awarded an MRC Clinical Training Fellowship for her PhD. Prior to completing her specialist clinical training, she was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and she then returned to east London to take up her current clinical and academic role. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes in diverse populations.

Sarah is Co-Lead of the Genes & Health, a large (n=55k) population-based study British Bangladeshi and Pakistani people. This research programme, with funding (£28M) from MRC, Wellcome Trust and a Life Sciences Consortium, attracts >100 international research teams to work with its open access resources to deliver high quality science to improve health and disease.

Recent major research grants include:

  • Wellcome Trust Discovery Award. Towards a type 2 diabetes precision diagnosis approach with glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) measurement. 227897/Z/23/Z. January 2024-December 2032, £4.5m. Co-Investigator (responsible for £3m budget)
  • MRC. Genes & Health Longitudinal Population Study, MR/X009920/1. Awarded November 2022, £2.5million. Principal Investigator
  • MRC. “Multimorbidity clusters, trajectories and genetic risk in British south Asians” (MR/S027297/1), March 2020-February 2023. £579,000. Principal Investigator

Sarah’s team brings together clinical and non-clinical researchers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. Her team has a strong ethos of collegiality, mentorship, support and work-life balance. Sarah and her team work closely in partnership with her close academic collaborators at QMUL, Professor Rohini Mathur, Dr Moneeza Siddiqui and Professor David van Heel.

Sarah also works as a Consultant in Diabetes at Barts Health NHS Trust, specialising in type 1 diabetes (including pump therapy), complex type 2 diabetes and diabetes in pregnancy.

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