Research Advisory Board - Parth Narendran

Parth Narendran qualified from Kings College London in 1992 and undertook his post-graduate clinical training in Manchester, Bristol and London. He conducted his PhD studies on the immune mechanisms underlying the development of type 1 diabetes while at Bristol, completing these in 2000 with funding from the British Diabetic Association. He was subsequently awarded a JDRF post-doctoral fellowship to undertake a two year period of basic science research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. He took up his current post of clinical senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 2005.

Parth's research interests continue to focus on the immunology of type 1 diabetes, on the influence of obesity and insulin resistance on this disease process, and the mechanisms of immune tolerance as it relates to type 1 diabetes. He has received funding from Diabetes UK, JDRF, DRWF and the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust to support his research.

His clinical interests also focus on type 1 diabetes and he drives the structured education programme, the adolescent transition and insulin pump service for University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.