Professor Georgios Gkoutos and Professor Thomas Pinkney, from the University of Birmingham’s College of Medicine and Health, have been appointed as NIHR Senior Investigators. This important award highlights their exceptional contributions to health and social care research.
The NIHR Senior Investigator Award is one of the highest honours within the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) community. It recognises the most outstanding and influential researchers funded by the NIHR. Senior Investigators are selected for their exemplary leadership in applied health, public health, or social care research, and their significant contributions to the NIHR's mission.
Professor Georgios Gkoutos holds the Chair of Clinical Bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Joint Director of the Health Data Science Centre at the University of Birmingham, Associate Director of Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) Midlands and has a distinguished career in biomedical informatics and translational research. He also works as part of the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre’s Data, Diagnostics and Decision Tools and Sarcopenia and Multimorbidity research themes, and is co-investigator on the NIHR-Emergency Preparedness and Resilience-HPRU and LifeArc Translational Rare Disease Centre RD-TAP programmes. His work focuses on the discovery of molecular origins of human diseases and the development of novel diagnostic and intervention strategies.
