Dr Laura Corbin
BSc, PGDip, PhD
Current positions
Research Fellow
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Research interests
I am involved in a range of research aimed at better understanding how body mass index (BMI) exerts an effect on human health and disease. The main focus of my research is to evaluate the impact of BMI change on the metabolome. This includes the analysis of both nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) derived metabolite data from randomised control trials (RCT) designed to evaluate the efficacy of both weight management programmes and bariatric surgery in achieving weight loss.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Deep Molecular Phenotyping of the Impact of GLP-1 Therapy.
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2025 to 01/11/2028
Decoding Obesity: Exploring Proteomic and Metabolic Signatures of Obesity Subtypes Based on Body Composition Measures.
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2025 to 01/03/2028
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2026Cross-species studies implicate the melanocortin 3 receptor more strongly in the control of pubertal development than energy balance
Molecular Metabolism
Multivariate analysis of metabolomic data to identify biological pathways modified by a clinical intervention
Metabolomics
Quantitative biomarker profiling of serum samples in the By-Band-Sleeve trial
Wellcome Open Research
Adiposity, metabolites and endometrial cancer risk: Inference from combinations of Mendelian randomization and Observational analyses
BMC Cancer
Evaluating the association of transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily A member 1 gene polymorphisms with pain sensitivity
Pain Reports
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