K. N. Frayn

Keith Frayn is Emeritus Professor of Human Metabolism at the University of Oxford. His career has been spent studying human metabolism and nutrition in different conditions, from injured patients arriving in Accident and Emergency, through studies of exercise and recreational hill-walking, to people with diabetes, obesity and lipid disorders. His enormous experience in human metabolism is reflected in a number of prestigious awards. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Nutrition Society and an Emeritus Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. His textbook on human metabolism is now in its 4th edition (Human Metabolism: a Regulatory Perspective, written with Rhys D. Evans, Wiley Blackwell 2019), and is used worldwide as a course text, and praised for its clarity of explanation of difficult concepts. He is also a co-author of the advanced text Lipids: Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Health (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).