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Born Stephen Patrick O'Rahilly 1 April 1958 (age 58) ( 1958-04-01 ) Citizenship Ireland, United Kingdom Institutions University of CambridgeUniversity of OxfordHarvard Medical SchoolUniversity College DublinAddenbrooke's HospitalSt Bartholomew's HospitalSanger InstituteHammersmith Hospital Notable awards Doctor of Medicine, Royal College of Physicians |
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Sir Stephen Patrick O'Rahilly FRS FRCP FRCP FRCPath FRS FMedSci is an Irish-British physician and Professor known for his research into the molecular pathogenesis of human obesity, insulin resistance and related metabolic and endocrine disorders.
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Education
O'Rahilly was raised in Dublin, Ireland and educated at Beneavin College. He attended University College Dublin to study medicine
Research
O'Rahilly has undertaken research at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School into diabetes and insulin resistance, before joining the University of Cambridge where he is a Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Director of the University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, co-director of the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Scientific Director of the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Associate Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and honorary consultant physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
Awards and honours
O'Rahilly was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, the Royal Society in 2003. His nomination reads:
O'Rahilly became a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, in the US in 2011. He was awarded the Heinrich Wieland Prize in 2002, the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize in 2010 and the Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine in 2014. He was the speaker of the 2016 Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians of London.
O'Rahilly was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to medical research.