Paul Trayhurn

Paul Trayhurn serves as a Professor of nutritional biology and Director of the Obesity Biology Research Unit at the University of Liverpool (UK). He obtained doctorates (D.Phil. and D.S. degrees) from the University of Oxford and was a NATO European Research Fellow at the Centre de Neurochimie du CNRS in Strasbourg, France (1972-1973). In 1975, he became on the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge before moving to Canada in 1986 to serve as a Professor and Heritage Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Alberta. Between 1988 and 2000, he was the Head of the Division of Biomedical Sciences at the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Professor of Nutritional Biology at the University of Oslo, Norway, before moving to his current position. His honors include the André Mayer Prize of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (1983), the Friedrich Wassermann Award of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (2008), and the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the National Academy of Scotland (1997). He has chaired the Awards Committee of the International Association for the Study of Obesity since 1999. Between 1999 and 2005, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nutrition. His research has focused on energy metabolism and obesity; early interests were the role of thermogenesis (brown adipose tissue) in the regulation of energy balance, but his recent focus has been on the endocrine function of adipose tissue, particularly the link between inflammatory adipokines and the diseases associated with obesity. Trayhurn has published 160 peer-reviewed papers and > 100 review articles on energy regulation, adipose tissue function, and obesity, and he has been an invited Speaker at > 150 international scientific meetings.

Biography Updated on 2 October 2011

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