Stephen O'Rahilly

Early life and education O'Rahilly was born on 1 April 1958 in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Beneavin De La Salle College in Finglas, Dublin. co-director of the Institute of Metabolic Science and the scientific Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre. O'Rahilly is also an Associate Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and honorary consultant physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He is a professorial fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Notable Cambridge scientists with whom O'Rahilly has shared paper authorship include Krishna Chatterjee, David Dunger, Sadaf Farooqi, Nita Forouhi, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Nick Wareham, and Giles Yeo.

Awards and honours O'Rahilly was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, the Royal Society in 2003. His nomination reads: 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 elected to the US National Academy of Sciences as an Overseas Member in 2011 and to the Academia Europaea in 2022. He delivered 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.

In 2017, he became a member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 2018, he was made an Honorary Doctor of RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin. He also holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Dundee, Warwick and Buckingham

In 2019, O'Rahilly was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (LSW). He was also awarded the Banting Medal for his contributions towards diabetes research by the American Diabetes Association in the same year.

O'Rahilly was awarded the Croonian Medal in 2011 by the Royal College of Physicians. He 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.

In 2023, O'Rahilly was awarded the OU Health Harold Hamm International Prize for Biomedical Research in Diabetes for his outstanding research into the link between obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Personal life O’Rahilly lives in Cambridge, England with his wife, journalist Philippa Lamb, and his stepson Felix Lamb. He was married to Suzy Oakes from 1990 until her death in 2011.