Antonio Vidal-Puig#
| Membership Number: | 7224 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.tvplab-cambridge.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4220-9577 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/?trk=guest_homepage-basic_nav-header-signin |
Present and Previous Positions
- October 2009 - present Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism University of Cambridge
- Associate Director MRC Metabolic Disease Unit (MDU)
- MRC Investigator
- Lead of Cardiometabolic Medicine Cambridge Heart and Lung Research Institute
- Honorary Consultant Metabolic Medicine Addenbrooke’s Hospital
- Scientific Director Cambridge Phenomics Centre
- Principal Investigator at Principe Felipe Research Center (CIPF), Valencia
- Associate Research Scientist at Cambridge University Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation (CUNJC) Nanjing
- Honorary Professor University of Nanjing, China
- Visiting Professor, Chiba University, Japan
- Honorary Professor, Soochow University, China
- Toh Chin Chye visiting professorship National University of Singapore
- 2006 - 2009 Reader in Metabolism and BiochemistryUniversity of Cambridge
- Honorary Consultant Metabolic Medicine
- Director of the Wellcome Trust Integrative Physiology Mouse Program
- Deputy Director CORD-MRL (Center for Obesity and Related Disorders)
- Scientific Director Cambridge Phenomics Centre
- 2003 - 2006 Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Cambridge University
- Honorary Consultant Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine
- Director of the Wellcome Trust Integrative Physiology Mouse Program
- 1999 - 2002 Senior Research Associate. Departments of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine. Cambridge U. Honorary SpR Metabolic Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
- 1997 - 1999 Instructor. Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA USA (Boston Obesity Nutrition Career Development Award)
- 1993 - 1997 Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. USA (Paul Dudley White Fellowship Award from the American Heart Association)
- 1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. USA Post Doctoral Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Health.
- 1988 - 1991 Intern and Resident in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Granada University Hospital, Granada, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Research management and strategy
- Insulin resistance and diabetes
- Translational metabolic research
- Cardiometabolic disease mechanisms
- Hypothalamic control of energy homeostasis
- Brown and beige fat activation
- Obesity and metabolic syndrome
- Lipotoxicity and adipose tissue dysfunction
- Systems biology and stem cell approaches
- International collaboration in biomedical research
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Fellow Fudan University
- 2004 Distinguished Visiting Professor in School of Life &Health Sciences, Fuyao Univeristy of Science and Technology, China
- 2024 President International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI), Chinese Academy of Science
- 2024 Honorary Doctorate, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
- 2024 Toh Chin Chye Visiting Professorship, National University of Singapore
- 2023 IUBMB (International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Plenary Award Lecture
- 2022 Honorary Professor, Soochow University, China
- 2022 Visiting Professor, Chiba University, Japan
- 2019 Sir Philip Randle Lecture, Biochemical Society
- 2019 International Research Affiliate, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, National University of Singapore.
- 2018 Visiting Professor, University of Nanjing, China
- 2017 British Endocrine Society Medal, Society for Endocrinology BES
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant, "StemBAT: New players in human BAT differentiation and activation," European Research Council
- 2015 Career Distinguished Award, Lilly Fundacion
- 2015 Hippocrates International Award for Nutrition Research, Royal Academy of Medicine, Principado de Asturias
- 2015 FEBS National Lecturer
- 2014 Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2013 Fellowship Award, Executive MBA Judge Institute, University of Cambridge.
- 2013 Pat Usher memorial lecturer. Beth Israel Endocrine Grand Rounds.Harvard Medical School
- 2007 Fellow Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
- 1995 Paul Dudley White Fellowship Award from the American Heart Association
