Moffat Nyirenda
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University of Edinburgh
Moffat Nyirenda | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh University of Malawi University College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Glucocorticoids and the programming of hepatic glucose metabolism (1999) |
Moffat Nyirenda is a Malawian physician who is Professor of Molecular Medicine and Director of the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute. He has served at the Southern Africa Consortium for Research Excellence. His research looks to understand the aetiology of non-communicable disease in Africa. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2025.
Nyirenda is from Karonga, a rural area in Malawi.[1] He studied at Kamuzu Academy, sometimes described as the “Eton of Africa”.[1] He was in the first cohort of students to graduate from the College of Medicine in Malawi, and completed his training between the University of Malawi and University College London.[citation needed] During his degree he took part in an intercalated Bachelor's in immunology.[citation needed] He completed a doctorate in molecular medicine at the University of Edinburgh, He was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientists Fellowship Award.[citation needed] In Edinburgh, Nyirenda studied developmental programming. He showed that prenatal exposure to glucocorticoids could predispose babies to diabetes later in life.[1]
