He is the professor of molecular neuroendocrinology at the Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit and scientific director of the Genomics/Transcriptomics Core at the University of Cambridge.

[1] Giles Yeo was born in London, England and previously lived in Singapore, San Francisco, and since 1994 has been based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

[3] His focus is on the study of obesity, brain control of body weight and genetic influences on appetitive behaviour.

In November 2019 Giles was the winner of the centenary year The Genetics Society JBS Haldane Lecture, which ‘recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience’.

In 2023, Dr Yeo became the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Rio Life, a UK-based metabolic health start-up.