Dr carel le roux biography definition

carel.leroux@ucd.ie

What are your primary areas of research?

My primary areas of research is focused on understanding how the gut talks to the brain. By using the disease of obesity it enables pathophysiological processes in the subcortical areas of the brain to be interrogated when peripheral signals from the gut are altered.

This can be done by using bariatric surgery as a model, where multiple gut signals are enhanced and act in concert, or by using single signals such as Glucagon like peptide 1 analogues.

What do you consider your most significant research accomplishments to date?

My most significant research accomplishments has been to change the narrative around obesity from it being a self-inflicted condition to a disease of obesity with measurable pathophysiology, symptoms, signs, and complications.

In your career what would be the ultimate achievement you would like to accomplish?

The ultimate achievement would be not only for obesity to be recognised as a disease b