Pearson Ewan

Biography

Ewan Pearson is a Professor in Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee, UK, and is Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee.  He is the Director of the Dundee Clinical Academic Track and the Academy of Medical Sciences/Wellcome funded INSPIRE lead for the University. 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. His research interests are the phenotypic and genotypic determinants of drug response, the aetiology of young-onset diabetes and the mechanisms driving progression of diabetes.  He leads the €46M IMI-DIRECT project on stratification in Type 2 diabetes and is Strand 2 lead on the £2.7M MRC funded MASTERMIND project.  He has recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust New Investigator award to investigate drug response in Type 2 diabetes.

Research Interest

Research interests are in stratification of diabetes, phenotypic and genotypic determinants of drug response and the aetiology of young onset diabetes such as Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young and Neonatal Diabetes.