Endocrine Abstracts

S O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Abstract

Stephen O’Rahilly graduated in Medicine from University College Dublin in 1981. From 1982 to 1991 he undertook postgraduate clinical and research training in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology in London, Oxford and Harvard. In 1991 he obtained a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship and established his laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

In 1996 he was appointed to the Chair of Metabolic Medicine and in 2002 to the Chair of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and the MRC Centre for Obesity and Related Metabolic disease at the Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge and is an honorary consultant physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital where he is active as a clinician and teacher.

Prof. O’Rahilly’s research has been concerned with the elucidation of the basic causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes and the utilisation of this information to inform advances in prevention and treatment.

He is a Fellow of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society. He is currently Chairman of the Medical Research Society and of the MRC Translational Research Overview Group, and a member of the Council of the Society for Endocrinology.