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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Rathi Prasad

Rathi

Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

Centre: Endocrinology

Email: r.prasad@qmul.ac.uk

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Dr Rathi Prasad graduated in Medicine in 2004 from Imperial College London, thereafter training in Paediatrics and sub-specialising in Paediatric Endocrinology. She commenced her PhD at the Centre for Endocrinology in 2010, initially funded by a Barts and the London Charity Research Fellowship and thereafter a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship. She was awarded her PhD on the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis in Triple A Syndrome and familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD), in 2014. This work included the description of a novel form of FGD secondary to mutations in TXNRD2, a component of the thioredoxin antioxidant system.

She was appointed as a Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Royal London Children’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust in 2016. Her clinical practice incorporates all areas of Paediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, with particular interest in adrenal disorders, puberty, differences in sex development and familial paraganglioma syndrome.

Her research interest is in genetic disorders of primary adrenal insufficiency including the description of a new multi-systemic disorder of sphingolipid metabolism incorporating adrenal disease, nephrotic syndrome and wider endocrinopathy secondary to SGPL1 mutations. Her current research, funded by an MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership, is focused in deciphering mechanisms of disease related to Sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase deficiency, in particular the endocrinopathy associated with the condition.

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