Professor Keith Frayn
Doctor of Science (HonDSc)
Year conferred: 2009
Keith Frayn is Professor of Human Metabolism at the University of Oxford. He graduated from the University of Cambridge and studied for his PhD at St Bartholomew’s Medical College, London, before working with the Medical Research Council’s Toxicology Unit and later the MRC Trauma Unit.
He has been in Oxford since 1986, where he leads a research group with interests in fat metabolism in humans, studying both basic physiology and the pathophysiology of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. He has published extensively in the area of metabolic regulation, and especially adipose tissue function, in humans.
Keith Frayn also teaches metabolism and nutrition to medical, physiology and biochemistry students. He is author of two textbooks: Lipid Biochemistry: an Introduction (5th edition, with M.I. Gurr and J.L. Harwood: Blackwell Science, 2002) and Metabolic Regulation: a Human Perspective (2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing 2003).
