Dr Natalie North (Nee Haywood)
- Position: BHF Intermediate Research Fellow
- Email: N.J.Haywood@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: LIGHT Laboratories
Profile
I graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first class BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology (2011). Following this, I undertook an MSc in Bioscience Specialising in Human disease, with Professor Michelle Peckham and graduated from the University of Leeds with Distinction (2012). I was then awarded a British Heart Foundation named PhD studentship to undertake a PhD in the laboratory of Professor Stephen Wheatcroft and was awarded my PhD in 2015 from the University of Leeds. I then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for Professor Stephen Wheatcroft and then Professor Mark Kearney. I am now currently a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Research Fellow in Cardiometabolic Science within LICAMM.
Research interests
My research aims are to address the link between obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, with a particular interest in the role of the insulin like growth factor family and the endothelium.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons)
- MSc
- PhD
- AFHE
- FHE
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
- Discovery and Translational Science
- Cardiometabolic
- Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre