Clore Laboratory – University of Buckingham

Mike Cawthorne, Director of the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Buckingham, on the need for better and more effective treatments for diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer’s. The most recent estimate of the world diabetes population published by the International Diabetes Federation is 381 million – up by 11 million since 2012. Half of these people with diabetes don’t know they have the disease and typically at diagnosis subjects have had diabetes for 10 years.