Giuseppe D'Agostino

Giuseppe (Peppe) D'Agostino is a Group Leader at the University of Manchester, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, and he is a member of the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation and the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre. A pharmacologist by training, Peppe earned his PhD in Neuropharmacology from the University of Naples, Italy, and pursued further research training at Yale University (USA), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Aberdeen. In 2017, he was awarded a Medical Research Council fellowship to establish his independent research group. In 2019, his laboratory relocated to the University of Manchester, where in 2023 became Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor).

His team focuses on neuronal circuits that control appetite and fuel metabolism under both homeostatic and pathological conditions, employing genetics, systems neuroscience, and integrative physiology approaches.