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Ewan Pearson is Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee, Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee. In the School of Medicine, he is the Head of Division, Population Health & Genomics, and the Director of the Dundee Clinical Academic Track.
Professor Pearson obtained his medical degree from the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK. He undertook a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training fellowship with Prof Andrew Hattersley at the University of Exeter Medical School, UK and completed his PhD in the physiology and treatment of monogenic diabetes. He then moved to Dundee where he was supported by a Chief Scientist Office Clinician Scientisit fellowship and, more recently, by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. Over the last ten years in Dundee his research interests have been in the phenotypic and genotypic determinants of drug response in diabetes, and in stratified approaches to the management of diabetes. He leads the IMI-DIRECT project on stratification in type 2 diabetes and is strand 2 lead on the ABPI-MRC funded MASTERMIND project. Ewan has been awarded the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Croom Lecture, an EASD Rising Star award, the Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Lecture, the EASD Minkowski Award, and the Diabetes UK Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture for his work in these areas.
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Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Medicine, Peninsula Medical School
Award Date: 1 Jan 2005
Master of Arts, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 1 Jan 1997
Bachelor of Medicine, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 1 Jan 1995
Bachelor of Arts, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 1 Jan 1993
External positions
Guest Professor, Lund University
1 Feb 2021 → …
Visiting Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh
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PRecision Medicine for Diabetis Individuals: a Joint Malaysia-UK Effort (PRIME) - (Joint with UMBI)
Doney, A., Lang, C., Mordi, I., Palmer, C., Pearson, E. & Trucco, M.
31/12/19 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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Common variants near ATM are associated with glycemic response to metformin in type 2 diabetes
Zhou, K., Bellenguez, C., Spencer, C. C. A., Bennett, A. J., Coleman, R. L., Tavendale, R., Hawley, S. A., Donnelly, L. A., Schofield, C., Groves, C. J., Burch, L., Carr, F., Strange, A., Freeman, C., Blackwell, J. M., Bramon, E., Brown, M. A., Casas, J. P., Corvin, A., Craddock, N. & 31 others, , Feb 2011, In: Nature Genetics. 43, 2, p. 117-120 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Four groups of type 2 diabetes contribute to the etiological and clinical heterogeneity in newly diagnosed individuals: An IMI DIRECT study
IMI DIRECT Consortium, Wesolowska-Andersen, A., Brorsson, C. A., Bizzotto, R., Mari, A., Tura, A., Koivula, R., Mahajan, A., Vinuela, A., Tajes, J. F., Sharma, S., Haid, M., Prehn, C., Artati, A., Hong, M-G., Musholt, P. B., Kurbasic, A., De Masi, F., Tsirigos, K., Pedersen, H. K. & 41 others, , 18 Jan 2022, In: Cell Reports Medicine. 3, 1, 32 p., 100477.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Heterogeneity in phenotype, disease progression and drug response in type 2 diabetes
Thakarakkattil Narayanan Nair, A., Wesolowska-Andersen, A., Brorsson, C. A., Lathika Rajendrakumar, A., Hapca, S., Gan, S., Dawed, A. Y., Donnelly, L. A., McCrimmon, R., Doney, A. S. F., Palmer, C. N. A., Mohan, V., Anjana, R. M., Hattersley, A. T., Dennis, J. M. & Pearson, E. R., 9 May 2022, In: Nature Medicine. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Improvements in Awareness and Testing Have Led to a Threefold Increase Over 10 Years in the Identification of Monogenic Diabetes in the U.K
Pang, L., Colclough, K. C., Shepherd, M. H., McLean, J., Pearson, E. R., Ellard, S., Hattersley, A. T. & Shields, B. M., 1 Mar 2022, In: Diabetes Care. 45, 3, p. 642-649 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Metabolic dysfunction-related liver disease as a risk factor for cancer
Taylor, A., Siddiqui, M. K., Ambery, P., Armisen, J., Challis, B. G., Haefliger, C., Pearson, E. R., Doney, A. S. F., Dillon, J. F. & Palmer, C. N. A., 25 Mar 2022, In: BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 9, 1, 10 p., e000817.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Traits, and Risk of Heart Failure: A Mendelian Randomization Study
Mordi, I. (Creator), Lumbers, R. T. (Creator), Palmer, C. (Creator), Pearson, E. (Creator), Sattar, N. (Creator), Holmes, M. V. (Creator) & Lang, C. (Creator), figshare, 6 Apr 2021
DOI: 10.2337/figshare.14448480
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Combined GWAS of metaformin glycaemic reponse in 1372 GoDARTS patients
Zhou, K. (Creator), Pearson, E. (Contributor) & Palmer, C. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 7 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.15132/10000119, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ega/datasets/EGAD00001002277
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Prizes
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Diabetes UK/Servier Type 2 Diabetes Research Award for outstanding contribution to the advancement and understanding of Type 2 Diabetes and its treatment
Pearson, Ewan (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Diabetes UK/Servier Type 2 Diabetes Research Award for outstanding contribution to the advancement of the understanding of Type 2 Diabetes and its treatment
Pearson, Ewan (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Diabetes UK/Servier Type 2 Diabetes Research Award for outstanding contribution to the advancement of the understanding of Type 2 Diabetes and its treatment.
Pearson, Ewan (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture 2020/2021
Pearson, Ewan (Recipient), Mar 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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EASD Minkowski Award 2017, Lisbon
Pearson, Ewan (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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European Diabetology (External organisation)
Ewan Pearson (Trustee)
1 Sep 2021 → 1 Sep 2024Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
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Wellcome Trust (External organisation)
Ewan Pearson (Chair)
1 Jan 2020 → 1 Dec 2021Activity: Membership types › Membership of panel
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American Diabetes Association (External organisation)
Ewan Pearson (Chair)
1 Jan 2019 → 1 Jan 2023Activity: Membership types › Membership of group
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Discovery Days 2014
Jonathan Urch (Organiser), Pete Downes (Chair), Karl Leydecker (Presenter), Graeme Hutton (Presenter), Charlotte Proby (Presenter), Amin Abdolvand (Presenter), Doreen Cantrell (Chair), John Rowan (Presenter), Bruce Burton (Presenter), David Horn (Presenter), John Connell (Chair), Ewan Pearson (Presenter), Ruth O'Riordan (Presenter), Graeme Morton (Presenter), Anna Campbell (Presenter), John Baldacchino (Presenter), Karim Labib (Presenter), Stephen Decent (Chair), Fraser Smith (Presenter), Ioannis Anastasopoulos (Presenter), Deborah Peel (Presenter), Christopher Whatley (Chair), Ioan Fazey (Presenter), Graham Chadwick (Presenter), James Livesey (Presenter), Mark Robson (Presenter), Rory McCrimmon (Presenter) & Christopher Connolly (Presenter)
9 Jan 2014 → 10 Jan 2014Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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Press / Media
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DNA variant affects diabetes risk and treatment response
Ewan R. Pearson, Colin Neil Alexander Palmer & Louise A. Donnelly
1/05/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research