Dr J H Duncan Bassett

Duncan Bassett is Reader in Endocrinology at Imperial College and is a Consultant Physician at the Academic Health Sciences Centre specialising in Metabolic Bone Disease. He obtained a BA in pathology from Cambridge University and BM BCh from Oxford University.  He under took his research training at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre in London initially as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow and subsequently as MRC Clinician Scientist.  He completed his PhD at Imperial College in 2000, was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2004 and Reader in 2010.

Dr Bassett is a Principal Investigator in the Molecular Endocrinology Group in the Department of Medicine and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at the Hammersmith Hospital.  His current research is focused on the molecular mechanism of thyroid hormone action.  His particular interest is the role of thyroid hormone in skeletal development and the maintenance of adult bone.  These studies have already clarified the complex relationship between central and peripheral thyroid status and identified a critical role for local thyroid hormone metabolism in bone.  These studies are the result of longstanding and productive collaborations with many of the worlds leading thyroid hormone researchers.

The Molecular Endocrinology Group is an international leader in the field of thyroid hormone action and Dr Bassett frequently receives invitations to speak at International scientific conferences in Europe, America and Japan and his group has been awarded 9 research prizes in the last 7 years.

Dr Bassett is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the British Thyroid Association and the British Thyroid Foundation Grant Committee. His is on the editorial board of the Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology and Thyroid Research.  Dr Bassett is also involved in medical education at Imperial. He is member of the Graduate Entry MBBS committee and the course leader for endocrinology.