Professor Edwin Gale
Edwin Gale qualified in 1972 and has had a major interest in diabetes since 1976, prompted by a period spent working with Robert Tattersall in Nottingham. He went on to train in Copenhagen and Oxford before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Bart’s Hospital in London, and subsequently Head of the Department of Diabetes and Metabolism. Here he worked with Franco Bottazzo on the Bart’s-Windsor Family Study founded by Andrew Cudworth, and went on to establish the population-based Bart’s-Oxford Study in 1985. This led to the first survival analysis of type 1 diabetes prediction. In 1997 he moved to Bristol with Polly Bingley, his closest collaborator, and many other members of the team.
In collaboration with many other groups, his team helped to develop the current model used to predict future onset of diabetes in close relatives of an affected child. This led on to ENDIT (1994-2003), a multinational intervention trial.
Another major interest is in the epidemiology of type 1 diabetes, and he played a prominent role in the early stages of the EURODIAB ACE network, which has greatly clarified trends in the epidemiology of childhood onset diabetes in Europe. Documentation and interpretation of the rising incidence of childhood diabetes has been a major fascination.
He is the current Editor of Diabetologia, and has written reviews and opinion pieces on many aspects of diabetes. He has given many invited lectures including the 2007 Banting Lecturer for Diabetes-UK.
He believes that the human brain is an under-utilized resource in diabetes research.
Publications
See Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group Publications
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