Guy A. Rutter
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Albert Renold Prize
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| Born | Guy Allen Rutter |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham University of Bristol |
| Known for | Research on pancreatic beta-cell biology and insulin secretion |
| Awards | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) Albert Renold Prize Minkowski Prize Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry, Cell biology, Endocrinology |
| Institutions | University of Montreal Imperial College London McGill University Nanyang Technological University |
Guy A. Rutter FMedSci is a British biochemist and diabetes researcher known for his work on pancreatic beta-cell biology, insulin secretion, and diabetes pathophysiology. He is Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal and Researcher at the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM).
Rutter earned a Bachelor of Science (Class I Honours) in Biochemistry and Chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 1985 and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol in 1988.[1]
Career
After completing his PhD, Rutter carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol[2] and the University of Geneva, where he held a Medical Research Council Travelling Fellowship and a Ciba-Geigy Jubilee Fellowship.[3] He returned to the University of Bristol as a faculty member, becoming Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. In 2006 he joined Imperial College London as Head of the Section of Cell Biology and Functional Genomics and later served as Director of the Imperial Network of Excellence in Diabetes from 2018 to 2021. Rutter was appointed Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal[4] and Principal Investigator at the CRCHUM in 2021, and in 2025 became Head of the Cardiometabolic Axis at the same institution.[5]
He also holds visiting professorships at Imperial College London[6] and at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.[7]
