Two members of the DOME theme, Professor Steve O'Rahilly (theme leader) and Professor Krishna Chatterjee are among the first to be awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Awards, a prestigious new scheme providing funding for exceptional researchers who demonstrate they are addressing some of the most important questions about health and disease.
Steve O'Rahilly has been awarded £2.2 million over 5 years to study Insulin Resistance: Lessons from Extreme Phenotypes, while Krish Chatterjee has funding of £1.8 million to investigate Disorders of nuclear hormone synthesis and action: genetics and pathophysiology.
Speaking about the awards, Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, says "We are demonstrating our confidence in these outstanding individuals by providing longer-term, flexible funding; in return, we expect that they will make significant advances in knowledge in their field and act as ambassadors within the research community, helping us achieve our aim of improving human and animal health."
