Sir Stephen Patrick O'Rahilly was born on 1 April 1958 and is an Irish-British physician and scientist known for his research into the molecular pathogenesis of human obesity, insulin resistance and related metabolic and endocrine disorders.
16 Facts About Stephen O'Rahilly
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Stephen O'Rahilly undertook research into Type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School, before joining the University of Cambridge where he is a Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Director of the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories, Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and co-director of the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science.
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Stephen O'Rahilly is the scientific Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Associate Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and honorary consultant physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
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Stephen O'Rahilly is a professorial fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Notable Cambridge scientists with whom Stephen O'Rahilly has shared paper authorship include Krishna Chatterjee, David Dunger, Sadaf Farooqi, Nita Forouhi, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Nick Wareham, and Giles Yeo,.
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Stephen O'Rahilly was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, the Royal Society in 2003.
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Stephen O'Rahilly has made major contributions to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying human disorders of energy balance and metabolism.
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Stephen O'Rahilly became a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, in the US in 2011.
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Stephen O'Rahilly 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.
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Stephen O'Rahilly delivered the 2016 Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians of London.
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Stephen O'Rahilly was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to medical research.
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In 2019, Stephen O'Rahilly was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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Stephen O'Rahilly was awarded the Banting Medal for his contributions towards diabetes research by the American Diabetes Association in the same year.
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Stephen O'Rahilly was awarded the Croonian Medal in 2011 by the Royal College of Physicians.
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Stephen O'Rahilly was awarded it again, by the Royal Society in 2022, this time jointly with Sadaf Farooqi and they presented their lecture at the Royal Society in 2022.
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Stephen O'Rahilly was married to Suzy Oakes from 1990 until her death in 2011.