Ruth Loos

Ruth Loos is the Vice Executive Director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen. Ruth has dedicated her career to understanding the genetic causes of obesity, to gain insights into the biology underlying body weight regulation. She was a founding member of the GIANT (Genetic Investigation of ANTropometric traits) consortium, where she has spearheaded numerous large-scale gene-discovery efforts for BMI and obesity. Her interests extend beyond conventional obesity outcomes, focusing on more refined adiposity phenotypes and composite phenotypes to uncover new biological insights that traditional obesity research may have missed. The emergence of new -omics data has led her team to integrate genetic and proteomic information to identify obesity subtypes, predict who is at risk of obesity, and develop tailored prevention and treatment strategies.