Stephen O'Rahilly#
| Membership Number: | 6008 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/professor-sir-stephen-orahilly/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2199-4449 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Director, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge
- 2013 - present Co-Director, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge
- 2012 - present Associate Faculty Member, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge
- 2011 - present Scientific Director, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- 2007 - present Director, Wellcome-MRC IMS Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge
- 2007 - present Professorial Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
- 2002 - present Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge
- 2002 - present, Head of Department, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1994 - present Honorary Consultant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Fields of Scholarship
- Pathophysiology of obesity
- Obesity
- Human genetics
- Metabolic dysfunction
- Metabolism
- Cell biology
- Insulin resistance
- Insulin resistance
- Endocrinology
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Doctorates from University of Dublin (2008), University of Warwick (2009), University of Dundee (2012), Buckingham University (2013), Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (2018)
- 1999 Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2000 Society for Endocrinology Medal
- 2002 Heinrich Wieland Prize
- 2003 Fellow, Royal Society
- 2005 Rolf Luft Award Karolinska Institute
- 2007 Feldberg Award
- 2009 EMBO member
- 2010 Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal
- 2010 InBev Baillet-Latour Prize for Health
- 2011 Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Honorary Member of the German Society for Internal Medicine
- 2013 Ulysses Medal, U C Dublin
- 2013 Knight Bachelor for services to medical research, Birthday Honours List
- 2014 Zülch Prize
- 2014 Baly Medal
- 2014 Debrecen Prize
- 2015 European Hormone Medal of the European Society for Endocrinology
- 2015 EASD/Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence
- 2015 Edward K. Dunham Lectureship for the Promotion of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School
- 2016 Helmholtz Diabetes Award, Munich Germany
- 2017 Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy
- 2019 Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2019 Taubman Prize for Excellence in Medical Science, University of Michigan, USA
- 2019 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement of the American Diabetes Association
- 2019 Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research, Japan
- 2020 Rank Prize for Nutrition
- 2020 Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
- 2021 Royal Society Croonian Medal (jointly with Professor Sadaf Farooqi)
