Rebecca Reynolds

Biography

Professor Reynolds is Professor of Metabolic Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Physician in Diabetes & Endocrinology, NHS Lothian and Director of the Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Her main research interest is in the early life origins of health and she was awarded the Nick Hales Award in 2011 by the International Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and the Curt Richter Award in 2012 by the International Society of Psychoneuronendocrinology in recognition of this work. She is Chair of the Diabetes UK Clinical Studies Group ‘Causes of Diabetes’. Her work spans ‘process to population’ eg experimental medicine studies in pregnant women and their children, detailed mechanistic studies using placental tissue, randomised controlled trials testing interventions in pregnancy to improve outcomes and epidemiological data-linkage studies using ‘big data’ in Scotland.

Research Interest

 Diabetes