Professor Carel le Roux graduated from medical school in Pretoria South Africa and completed his specialist training in metabolic medicine at St Bartholomew's and the Hammersmith Hospitals. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College London where he later took up a faculty position before moving to University College Dublin for the Chair in Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Medicine. He also holds a professorship at Ulster University and an extra-ordinary professorship at the University of Pretoria. He currently coordinates an Innovative Medicine Initiative project on obesity and has received the Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year award, a President of Ireland Young Researcher Award, a Clinician Scientist Award from the NIHR (UK), and a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowship.