Professor Mark McCarthy
Robert Turner Professor of Diabetic Medicine; Senior Research Fellow of Green Templeton College
About
Professor McCarthy’s research group studies the genetic basis of diabetes and obesity. His multidisciplinary research team includes clinicians, research nurses, laboratory-based research staff and computational biologists.
Expertise
- Causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes
- The genetic basis of common diseases, especially diabetes
- The place of genetics in modern medicine
- Genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics
Selected publications
- Systematic Functional Characterization of Candidate Causal Genes for Type 2 Diabetes Risk Variants (2016)
- A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease (2016)
- Evaluation of type 2 diabetes genetic risk variants in Chinese adults: findings from 93,000 individuals from the China Kadoorie Biobank (2016)