Prof Vidal-Puig obtained his medical degree from Valencia Medical School before training in clinical endocrinology at Granada Medical School, where he obtained his PhD based on clinical and physiological studies of the relationship between insulin resistance and hyperandrogenism. The award of the Paul Dudley White Fellowship from the American Heart Association funded postdoctoral training at Harvard University. In 2000 he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he developed the obesity, diabetes and cardiometabolic complications programme.
Prof Vidal-Puig is currently the Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism at Cambridge University and Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science Director of the Cambridge Phenomics Centre, and Scientific Director of cardiometabolic medicine at Cambridge Heart and Lung Research Institute.
Vidal-Puig maintains a close relationship with Spain, as a researcher at the Príncipe Felipe Research Center in Valencia (Spain) and Rey Juan Carlos University collaborator. He is a member of the SABs of CIBERob, CIBERDem, and Health Research Institutes in Spain. He serves as Chair of the ERC Medicine LS4 panel and participated in evaluation committees of Severo Ochoa, and Jaime I awards.
Vidal-Puig directs the biomedicine program at the Center for Technology and Innovation at the University of Cambridge in Nanjing. Vidal-Puig is a concurrent professor at Nanjing University (China), Soochow University (China), and Chiba University (Japan). Vidal-Puig is a member of the Center for AI Technology of Humankind at the National University of Singapore Business School.
His research program focuses on the molecular mechanisms of lipid-induced insulin resistance and lipotoxicity modulating fatty acid oxidation and thermogenic mechanisms. Prof. Vidal-Puig is the author of 260 scientific articles and has trained many PhDs, and postdoctoral, many of them established in Spain
Vidal-Puig has received important awards such as the International Hippocrates Award for Research in Nutrition (RAM Principality Asturias), FEBS National Lecturer, Medal of the British Endocrinology Society and the Lilly Foundation Distinguished Career Award. Sir Philip Randle Lecture Award from the British Biochemical Society, among others.
Vidal-Puig is interested in innovative strategies for management in research-intensive academic institutions. He graduated with an MBA from the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge and is part of a research group aiming to translate the knowledge available in other business-related areas to academic management.
