WEHI Director’s Special Seminar hosted by Professor Ken Smith
 

Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly MD FRS FMedSci
Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories and Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

 

Insights into human metabolic and endocrine phenotypes from rare genetic variants

 

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly MD FRS FMedSci is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, an Honorary Consultant Physician at Addenbrookes Hospital and a Fellow of Pembroke College   He played a leading role in the establishment of the Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) at the University of Cambridge and was its founding co-Director. He was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland (MB1981, MD 1987) and undertook post graduate training in endocrinology in London, Oxford and Boston MA before starting his independent laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1991. 

He researches the aetiology and pathophysiology of human metabolic and endocrine disorders and how such information might be used to improve the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of these diseases. He was elected FRS in 2003, to the National Academy of Sciences, USA in 2011 and has received five honorary doctorates. In 2013 he was made Knight Bachelor "for services to medical research".  Scientific awards include the 2002 Heinrich Weiland Prize, the 2005 Luft Prize, the 2007 Feldberg Prize, the 2010 InBev-Baillet Latour Prize for Health, the 2014 Debrecen Prize, the 2014 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, the 2015 Edward K Dunham Lectureship, Harvard Medical School and the 2015 EASD/Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence. He was the 2016 Harveian Orator RCP of London, in 2019 received the Taubman Prize for Medical Science, University of Michigan, USA, the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, American Diabetes Association and the Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research, Japan. In 2020 the Rank Prize for Nutrition, in 2022 the Royal Society Croonian Medal (jointly with Professor Sadaf Farooqi) and in 2023 the Harold Hamm International Prize for Biomedical Research in Diabetes, USA. 

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