Stella Pelengaris PhD is a Senior Research Fellow in Molecular Medicine in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick and Warwick Medical School. Mike Khan PhD FRCP is a Consultant Endocrinologist and Physician at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire and Head of Molecular Medicine at the University of Warwick and Warwick Medical School. Dr Khan and Dr Pelengaris jointly head the cancer research group at the University of Warwick and run various postgraduate training courses at masters level and beyond in cancer biology and in metabolic diseases. They also are coauthors of the textbook Lipids and Diabetes (2002).