Giles Yeo

Giles Yeo is a Principal Research Associate at MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and a Scientific Director of the Genomics/Transcriptomics Core at the University of Cambridge.[1] He was born in London and lived in Singapore, San Francisco, United States, and since 1994 has been based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.[2] In 1994 he graduated from University of California, Berkeley (Molecular and Cell Biology) and in 1997 he completed a PhD study at University of Cambridge (Molecular genetics).[3] His focus is on the study of obesity, brain control of body weight and genetic influences on appetitive behaviour.[4] He has presented a triptych of BBC Horizon documentaries: Why are we getting so fat - 2016,[5] Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth - 2017[6] and Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth? - 2018[7] Giles was also a presenter on BBC Trust Me, I'm A Doctor.[8] His first book, 'Gene Eating: The Story Of Human Appetite' was published in Dec 2018.[9]

Giles Yeo, MBE

PhD
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom and United States of America
Alma materUniversity of California at Berkeley and University of Cambridge
OccupationResearch Scientist, author and broadcaster
Years active1998 - present
EmployerUniversity of Cambridge
TitlePrincipal Research Associate
AwardsMBE

Career

Yeo has held the following posts at the University of Cambridge:[10]

  • from December 1998: Research Associate at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
  • from December 2007: Scientific Director of Genomics/Transcriptomics at Institute for Metabolic Science
  • from September 2009 : Graduate Tutor at Wolfson College, Cambridge
  • from September 2014 : Principal Research Associate at MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit

Honours and public appearances

In October 2020 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours for services to 'Research, Communication and Engagement'.[11] In January 2021 he was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific.[12]

See also

References
  1. "Giles Yeo". Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science.
  2. "Giles Yeo: 'Love your food but don't eat quite as much of it as you want'". the Guardian. January 20, 2019.
  3. "Giles Yeo". New Scientist Live 2019.
  4. "Dr Giles Yeo :: Cambridge Neuroscience". www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk.
  5. "Why are we getting so fat - 2016".
  6. "Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth - 2017".
  7. "Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth? - 2018"..
  8. "Trust Me, I'm A Doctor".
  9. "'Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite' - Orion, Dec 2018".
  10. https://www.linkedin.com/in/giles-yeo-2062969
  11. "Cambridge academics recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours". University of Cambridge. October 10, 2020.
  12. "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Giles Yeo on how our genes can make us fat". BBC.


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