Speaker
Prof. Duncan Bassett
Prof. Duncan Bassett, Imperial College London, UK
Duncan Bassett is Professor of Endocrinology at Imperial College and is a Consultant Physician at the Hammersmith Hospital specialising in Metabolic Bone Disease. He obtained a BA in Pathology from Cambridge University and a BM BCh from Oxford University. He undertook his research training at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, initially as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow and subsequently as MRC Clinician Scientist. He completed his PhD at Imperial College in 2000, was appointed Professor in 2013 and a Wellcome Trust Investigator in 2016. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie skeletal development, maintenance and repair and their dysregulation in chronic degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. He also has longstanding interest in thyroid hormone action and particularly its role in the developing skeleton, and in the maintenance and repair of adult bones and joints.
