| RefNo | EC/2021/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Farooqi, Sadaf: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2021 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Sadaf Farooqi as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Sadaf Farooqi is distinguished for her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis and their disruption in obesity. She demonstrated that the leptin-melanocortin pathway plays a critical role in the regulation of human food intake, food preference and autonomic function and is the primary mechanism by which obesity leads to hypertension. Her demonstration that eating and associated instinctive behaviours are regulated by physiological signals has wide-ranging consequences for understanding the biology of human behaviour. Her discoveries have directly enabled diagnostic testing for genetic obesity syndromes and life-saving treatment for people with severe obesity. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |