Professor Nick Wareham is the Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science, Honorary Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge, England. He studied Medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School and Epidemiology at both the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Cambridge University. After research fellowships at Harvard and Cambridge University, he took up the Directorship of the MRC Epidemiology Unit when it was founded in 2003. He is also the Clinical Research Lead for Division 2 (diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease, metabolic and endocrine disorders, and renal disorders) of the NIHR Clinical Research Network: Eastern.
Professor Wareham’s principal research interests are in understanding the aetiology of type 2 diabetes and in developing strategies for prevention and early detection. These preventive approaches include individual and societal level interventions and he is the Director of the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR).