Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar
Lecturer in Biosciences

Grants

Project details

Research grants as principal applicant

• RD Lawrence Fellowship, “genetics of favourable adiposity” (£362,337 from Diabetes UK). 2017-2021
• Rising star fellowship, “Using human genetics to understand the underlying mechanisms that protect some obese people from type 2 diabetes” (€30,000 from European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes). 2017-2019
• Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Science, “Monogenic diabetes in Iran” (£100,000 from Wellcome Trust). 2016-2018

Research grants as co-applicant

• Medical Research Council project grant, “Using genetics to test the disease consequences of higher adiposity uncoupled from its adverse metabolic effects” (£425,618). 2019-2022
• MRC - KHIDI PARTNERING AWARD, “Understanding the differences in the “favourable adiposity” genotype and phenotype between East Asian and European populations” (£10,000). 2019-2021
• British Heart Foundation project grant, “The genetics of favourable adiposity” (£234,000). 2017 –2020

Awards and honours

• Young Diabetologists & Endocrinologists’ Forum (YDEF) award, Diabetes UK conference, Liverpool, UK, 6th-9th March 2019
• UK Biobank Early-Career Researcher of the Year, UK Biobank conference, London, UK, 21st June 2018.
• Best abstract, Innovators in diabetes meeting (meeting of top UK young scientists in the field of diabetes), May 2018.
• Best oral presentation, Mendelian Randomization conference, Bristol, UK, 11th-13th July 2017.
• One of four Nominees for “Nick Hales Young Investigator Award”, Diabetes UK Annual n Professional Conference, 2012.
• “Sir Bob Wilkins Travel Award” of £1000 to travel to ASHG (American Society of Human Genetics) conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2011.
• PhD scholarship, University of Exeter, 2010-2013.