Lindgren, Professor Cecilia

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Cecilia Lindgren

Research Fellow in Medical Sciences
Professor of Genomic Endocrinology & Metabolism, Nuffield Department of Medicine
Senior Group Leader, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health
Group Head / PI and Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

Email: celi@well.ox.ac.uk

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Academic background

Cecilia Lindgren has a PhD in Molecular Endocrinology with a specialisation in genetics from the University of Lund, completed in cooperation with the Witehead Institute at MIT. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lundt and at the Karolinska Institutet, and a Scholar in Residence at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, before joining the University of Oxford. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s since 2016, when she joined the steering group of the Centre for Personalised Medicine.

Research
Our research seeks to advance understanding of the mechanisms involved in obesity and the regulation of differential central fat accumulation. By applying a range of genetic and genomic approaches, we expect to identify genetic variants influencing regional fat distribution, and to illuminate some of the biological pathways involved. This knowledge should support translational advances in the management of obesity through development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic option.
Selected publications

Locke AE, Kahali B, Berndt SI, Justice AE, Pers TH, Day FR, Powell C, Vedantam S, Buchkovich ML, Yang J et al. 2015. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature, 518 (7538), pp. 197-206.

Locke AE, Kahali B, Berndt SI, Justice AE, Pers TH, Day FR, Powell C, Vedantam S, Buchkovich ML, Yang J et al. 2015. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature, 518 (7538), pp. 197-206.

Loos RJF, Lindgren CM, Li S, Wheeler E, Zhao JH, Prokopenko I, Inouye M, Freathy RM, Attwood AP, Beckmann JS et al. 2008. Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nat Genet, 40 (6), pp. 768-775.

See more on Professor Lindgren’s personal website.