An interview with Philip McTernan, section editor for the basic science section.

Philip G Mcternan

doi:10.1186/2052-9538-1-3

Abstract

Philip McTernan is a Reader Associate Professor within Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick. His main interests involve understanding the causes and underlying mechanisms of obesity mediated type 2 diabetes and investigating potential therapeutic targets. He is currently researching the origins of inflammation in human adipocytes and is the Section Editor for the new ‘Basic Science’ section in BMC Obesity. In this interview we find out a little more about the key issues in this area of obesity research.

Highlights

Philip McTernan is a Reader Associate Professor within Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick. His main interests involve understanding the causes and underlying mechanisms of obesity mediated type 2 diabetes and investigating potential therapeutic targets. He is currently researching the origins of inflammation in human adipocytes and is the Section Editor for the new ‘Basic Science’ section in BMC Obesity
How did you first become interested in obesity research? My earliest interaction with obesity-related research was in university during my first undergraduate biochemistry year, in the first ever lecture I attended at university
During my undergraduate degree adipose tissue was viewed as a storage tissue and an apparently dull one, and so attracted comparatively little interest from my Correspondence: P.G.McTernan@warwick.ac.uk University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX, UK

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Philip McTernan is a Reader Associate Professor within Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick. He is currently researching the origins of inflammation in human adipocytes and is the Section Editor for the new ‘Basic Science’ section in BMC Obesity.

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