Congratulations to Professor Rachel Batterham and Professor Alex Leff who have been awarded National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorships.
The NIHR recognises the UK’s most promising leaders in medical health research and each professor will receive funding to conduct research into conditions that affect millions of patients across the UK.
Professor Batterham’s work aims to improve the health of people with obesity by ensuring that bariatric surgery is delivered in the best way possible to improve the health of obese patients; and by studying people having bariatric surgery to gain new knowledge into how body weight is regulated.
Professor Leff’s work is in the evaluation and roll-out of therapeutic interventions for patients with cognitive disorders and will look at digital neuro-interventions to enhance re-learning in patients with acquired and degenerative brain diseases.
Four professorships were awarded in the latest round from the NIHR.
UCL academics Professor Anne Schilder, Professor James Bainbridge, Mr Paolo De Coppi and Dr Waseem Qasim have all previously been awarded NIHR professorships.
