The Howard Foundation are delighted to announce that the fourth Howard Lecture will be held in the Howard Theatre at Downing College on Tuesday 6th May. It will be given by Professor Mike Lean, who holds the chair of Human Nutrition, based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he is also a consultant physician with NHS responsibilities.

His talk is titled “Redefining Obesity and Diabetes: Radical new treatments, clear thought and common sense“

Mike is a Downing graduate and now Honorary Fellow. His training, together with his clinical and research experience, has led to a startling new dietary treatment to achieve remission of type 2 diabetes, adopted nationwide and challenging the pharmaceutical industry’s dominance.