Stephen O'Rahilly

Sir
Stephen O'Rahilly
FRS FRCP FRCPI FRCPath FMedSci FRSB MRIA
Born (1958-04-01) 1 April 1958 (age 66)[1]
Dublin, Ireland
CitizenshipIreland
United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity College Dublin (MB, BCh, BAO, MD)
Spouse
Suzy Oakes
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(m. 1990; died 2011)​
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBariatrics
Institutions
Websitewww.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/professor-sir-stephen-orahilly

Sir Stephen Patrick O'Rahilly FRS FRCP FRCPI FRCPath FMedSci FRSB MRIA (born 1 April 1958) 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.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ a b c "O'RAHILLY, Prof. Stephen". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Neill, U. S. (2013). "A conversation with Stephen O'Rahilly". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 123 (6): 2335–2336. doi:10.1172/JCI70726. PMC 3668822. PMID 23722908.
  3. ^ Weston, K. (2011). "Translating metabolic biochemistry into the clinic: An interview with Steve O'Rahilly". Disease Models & Mechanisms. 4 (2): 141–144. doi:10.1242/dmm.007641. PMC 3046085. PMID 21357759.
  4. ^ Gerken, T.; Girard, C. A.; Tung, Y. -C. L.; Webby, C. J.; Saudek, V.; Hewitson, K. S.; Yeo, G. S. H.; McDonough, M. A.; Cunliffe, S.; McNeill, L. A.; Galvanovskis, J.; Rorsman, P.; Robins, P.; Prieur, X.; Coll, A. P.; Ma, M.; Jovanovic, Z.; Farooqi, I. S.; Sedgwick, B.; Barroso, I.; Lindahl, T.; Ponting, C. P.; Ashcroft, F. M.; O'Rahilly, S.; Schofield, C. J. (2007). "The Obesity-Associated FTO Gene Encodes a 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Nucleic Acid Demethylase". Science. 318 (5855): 1469–1472. Bibcode:2007Sci...318.1469G. doi:10.1126/science.1151710. PMC 2668859. PMID 17991826.
  5. ^ Stephen O'Rahilly's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Oʼrahilly, Stephen; Montague, C. T.; Farooqi, I. S.; Whitehead, J. P.; Soos, M. A.; Rau, H.; Wareham, N. J.; Sewter, C. P.; Digby, J. E.; Mohammed, S. N.; Hurst, J. A.; Cheetham, C. H.; Earley, A. R.; Barnett, A. H.; Prins, J. B. (1997). "Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans". Nature. 387 (6636): 903–8. Bibcode:1997Natur.387..903M. doi:10.1038/43185. PMID 9202122. S2CID 205032762.
  7. ^ Seminara, S. B.; Messager, S.; Chatzidaki, E. E.; Thresher, R. R.; Acierno, J. S.; Shagoury, J. K.; Bo-Abbas, Y.; Kuohung, W.; Schwinof, K. M.; Hendrick, A. G.; Zahn, D.; Dixon, J.; Kaiser, U. B.; Slaugenhaupt, S. A.; Gusella, J. F.; O'Rahilly, S.; Carlton, M. B. L.; Crowley, W. F.; Aparicio, S. A. J. R.; Colledge, W. H. (2003). "TheGPR54Gene as a Regulator of Puberty". New England Journal of Medicine. 349 (17): 1614–27. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa035322. PMID 14573733.
  8. ^ Farooqi, I. S; Jebb, S. A.; Langmack, G.; Lawrence, E.; Cheetham, C. H.; Prentice, A. M.; Hughes, I. A.; McCamish, M. A.; O'Rahilly, S. (1999). "Effects of Recombinant Leptin Therapy in a Child with Congenital Leptin Deficiency". New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (12): 879–84. doi:10.1056/NEJM199909163411204. PMID 10486419.
  9. ^ Payne, F.; Lim, K.; Girousse, A.; Brown, R. J.; Kory, N.; Robbins, A.; Xue, Y.; Sleigh, A.; Cochran, E.; Adams, C.; Dev Borman, A.; Russel-Jones, D.; Gorden, P.; Semple, R. K.; Saudek, V.; O'Rahilly, S.; Walther, T. C.; Barroso, I.; Savage, D. B. (2014). "Mutations disrupting the Kennedy phosphatidylcholine pathway in humans with congenital lipodystrophy and fatty liver disease". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (24): 8901–8906. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111.8901P. doi:10.1073/pnas.1408523111. PMC 4066527. PMID 24889630.
  10. ^ "Professor Steve O'Rahilly, Head of Department and Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014.