Dr Jan Idkowiak

Jan is Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, based at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research and at the Department of Endocrinology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Jan is Programme Director of the Welcome Trust/ NIHR Clinical Research Facility (Paediatrics) and he also leads the West Midlands Childhood Obesity (Complications of Excess Weight, CEW) Service at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

His main research focuses on androgen metabolism. His main interest is how children and adolescents with androgen excess conditions, such as premature adrenarche and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), develop metabolic complications. His other key interest are inborn errors of steroidogenesis, in particular conditions affecting androgen generation. He combines clinical phenotyping and genetic analysis with in vitro functional studies to enhance our understanding of the molecular basis of androgen biosynthesis.

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