Ewan Pearson

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Biography

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 and the EASD Minkowski Award for his work in these areas.

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

Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh

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Projects

4 Not started
10 Active
17 Finished

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.

Medical Research Council

31/12/19 → 30/12/21

Project: Research

Integration of Knowledge and Biobank Resources in Comprehensive Translational Approach for Personalized Prevention and Treatment of Metabolic Disorders (INTEGROMED) (joint with Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre (Lead), Lund University and Weizmann Institute of Science Ltd)

Brown, A., Brown, A., Jefferson, E., Palmer, C. & Pearson, E.

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

1/10/19 → 30/09/22

Project: Research

Hyperglycemia/Tight Junction Dysfunction Validation A (Weizman Inst. lead)

Pearson, E.

Weizman Instiutute

1/08/19 → 31/07/20

Project: Research

CARdiomyopathy in type 2 DIAbetes mellitus (CARDIATEAM) (Joint with the INSERM as lead, CIBER- Network Centre for Biomedical Research, Luxembourg Institute of Health and 17 others)

Doney, A., Houston, G., Lang, C., Mordi, I., Palmer, C., Pearson, E. & Trucco, M.

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

1/03/19 → 29/02/24

Project: Research

Scotland India Diabetes Health Informatics Unit (joint with Madras Diabetes Research Foundation)

Doney, A., McCrimmon, R., Palmer, C., Pearson, E. & Trucco, M.

1/06/17 → 31/03/21

Project: Research

Research Output

8180 Citations
43 h-Index
130 Article
13 Review article
10 Letter
7 Editorial
22 More

Circulating tissue factor-positive procoagulant microparticles in patients with type 1 diabetes

Zhang, C., Ou, Q., Gu, Y., Cheng, G., Du, R., Yuan, L., Cordiner, R., Kang, D., Zhang, J., Huang, Q., Yu, C., Kang, L., Wang, X., Sun, X., Mo, X., Tian, H., Pearson, E., Meng, W. & Li, S., 3 Jan 2020, In : Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy. 12, p. 2819-2828 10 p.

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Strategies to identify individuals with monogenic diabetes: results of an economic evaluation

Peters, J. L., Anderson, R., Shields, B., King, S., Hudson, M., Shepherd, M., McDonald, T. J., Pearson, E., Hattersley, A. & Hyde, C., 18 Mar 2020, In : BMJ Open. 10, 3, p. 1-10 10 p., e034716.

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The impact of phenotype, ethnicity and genotype on progression of Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Thakarakkattil Narayanan Nair, A., Donnelly, L. A., Dawed, A. Y., Gan, S., Anjana, R. M., Mohan, V., Palmer, C. & Pearson, E., 7 Jan 2020, In : Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. 11 p., e00108.

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The role of physical activity in metabolic homeostasis before and after the onset of type 2 diabetes: an IMI DIRECT study

Koivula, R. W., Atabaki-Pasdar, N., Giordano, G. N., White, T., Adamski, J., Bell, J. D., Beulens, J., Brage, S., Brunak, S., De Masi, F., Dermitzakis, E. T., Forgie, I. M., Frost, G., Hansen, T., Hansen, T. H., Hattersley, A., Kokkola, T., Kurbasic, A., Laakso, M., Mari, A. & 14 others, McDonald, T. J., Pedersen, O., Rutters, F., Schwenk, J. M., Teare, H. J. A., Thomas, E. L., Vinuela, A., Mahajan, A., McCarthy, M. I., Ruetten, H., Walker, M., Pearson, E., Pavo, I. & Franks, P. W., 30 Jan 2020, In : Diabetologia. 13 p.

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