Centre for Neuroendocrinology

The Centre for Neuroendocrinology, a Research Centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences, was established in 2015. The Centre is directed by Professor Robert Millar and its establishment was supported by Principal Investigators, Prof. Claire Newton (Deputy Director) and Dr Ross Anderson who were joined by Prof. Iman van den Bout from 2017 to 2025.

The Centre’s research addresses the way in which the external environment and internal environment (body) are detected by the brain and integrated in the hypothalamic area to produce hormones which regulate all aspects of body health, including stress, metabolism, appetite, growth and reproduction. Disturbance of this homeostasis results in debilitating diseases such as obesity and diabetes, a failure to grow, infertility and cancers of the prostate, breast and female reproductive tract.

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