Professor Christopher Byrne PhD, FRCPath, FRCP
Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Honorary Consultant Diabetologist & Metabolic Physician
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Professor Christopher Byrne is Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Christopher Byrne was appointed to the Chair of Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Southampton in 1999. He trained at Cardiff, Hammersmith Hospital, Cambridge and Stanford Universities. As an MRC clinical training fellow he undertook his PhD in Cambridge (Downing College 1989-1992). He then undertook a 2 year travelling fellowship at Stanford University, CA and was then an MRC fellow at Cambridge University from 1994-1999. He was inaugural Director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at Southampton and is now Principal Investigator within the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. He has published over 300 peer reviewed papers and three books related to metabolic syndrome and non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). He is also Consultant Metabolic physician at University Hospital Southampton, where working with colleagues in Hepatology he provides a service for patients with diabetes and non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Additionally he specialises in the medical management of morbid obesity and also dyslipidaemias. He was instrumental in establishing the genetic testing service for Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) with colleagues at University Hospital Southampton and this NHS service was the first of its kind in England. The Southampton-based service is currently available for over 2 million people on the South Coast. In 2012, he was recipient of the Dorothy Hodgkin prize awarded by Diabetes UK for his research related in diabetes and NAFLD. He is a member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes NAFLD study Group, Diabetes UK, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and is past President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Lipids, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Risk Section.
Achievements
- MRC Training Fellow 1990-92
- Pfizer Academic Travel Award 1991
- Peel Trust Travelling Fellow 1992-93
- Cambridge University/Parke Davis Travelling Fellow 1993-94
- MRC Fellow 1994-99
- Fournier Lipidology Award 1999
- British Hyperlipidaemia Association & Parke Davis/Pfizer Award 1999
- John French Lectureship 1999
- Eli Lilly Award 2000
- Membership Association of Physicians 2003
- Dorothy Hodgkin Award Diabetes UK 2012
- President RSM Lipids, Metabolism and Vascular Risk section (2013 - 2016 )
Qualifications
- MB BCh University of Wales (medicine honours) (1983),
PhD University of Cambridge (1992), FRCP UK (2000), FRCPath UK (2002)
Appointments held
- MRC Training Fellow, University Depts of Clin Biochem & Medicine, Postgraduate student Downing College Cambridge 1989-1992
- Senior Registrar Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 1991-1992
- Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California USA, 1992-1994
- MRC Fellow, Hon Consultant Physician, & Senior Research Associate, Depts of Clinical Biochemistry & Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge 1994-1999
- Director Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, 4/1999 to 10/2003.