Professor Fredrik Karpe

Fixed-term Fellow in Medicine

Fredrik Karpe, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Metabolic Medicine
University of Oxford

Fredrik Karpe is head of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a physician-scientist who received initial academic and clinical training at the Karolinska in Sweden. He moved to Oxford in 1999 and became associated with Pembroke in 2004.  Over the past two decades he has been using genomics, cell biology and whole body physiology to investigate metabolic consequence of obesity and human fat distribution. As a clinician he is leading the Lipid Clinic Service in OCDEM (Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust).

Teaching activities

Coordinating role for Pembroke undergraduate medicine teaching and admissions

Tutorial teaching in BM-1

Supervision of FHS project students

Postgraduate supervision (supervised 14 PhD/DPhil students to completion)

 

Professor Fredrik Karpe

Fixed-term Fellow in Medicine

Fredrik Karpe, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Metabolic Medicine
University of Oxford

Fredrik Karpe is head of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a physician-scientist who received initial academic and clinical training at the Karolinska in Sweden. He moved to Oxford in 1999 and became associated with Pembroke in 2004.  Over the past two decades he has been using genomics, cell biology and whole body physiology to investigate metabolic consequence of obesity and human fat distribution. As a clinician he is leading the Lipid Clinic Service in OCDEM (Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust).

Teaching activities

Coordinating role for Pembroke undergraduate medicine teaching and admissions

Tutorial teaching in BM-1

Supervision of FHS project students

Postgraduate supervision (supervised 14 PhD/DPhil students to completion)