Chair, Research Advisory Board - Stephen Gough, MD FRCP

Professor of Diabetes and Consultant Physician, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), Churchill Hospital, Oxford.

Stephen Gough graduated from Leeds University Medical School in 1983, where after a series of junior posts in the North of England, returned to Leeds to work towards his MD on cardiac muscle dysfunction and impaired fibrinolysis in patients with type 2 diabetes. 

This led to a 12 month laboratory sabbatical in Marseille, France.
Stephen moved to Oxford to take up the post of MRC lecturer, where he developed interests in the genetics of type 1 diabetes and autoimmune disease. These interests developed further when moving to Birmingham as Senior Lecturer in Diabetes, where he worked on autoimmune thyroid disease as a model for the identification of general autoimmune disease genes. He became the principle investigator (PI) of the Wellcome Trust funded national collection of DNA from index cases and families with autoimmune thyroid disease and was a founder member and PI for autoimmune thyroid disease of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.

In 2010 he returned to Oxford to become Professor of Diabetes and Consultant Physician where he continues to work on the genetic basis to common autoimmune disease and where he has also established a translational research group within the Diabetes Trial Unit at OCDEM.