Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly

Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Director, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Stephen O’Rahilly FRS is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge, founding Co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS), founding Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Scientific Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and Honorary Consultant Physician, Addenbrookes Hospital.  Born and educated in Dublin (MB 1981, MD 1987), he undertook post graduate training in endocrinology in London, Oxford and Boston MA before starting his independent lab in 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 has received numerous scientific awards, in 2013 was made Knight Bachelor “for services to medical research” and has received five honorary doctorates.