Professor Andrew Morris

Andrew is the Professor of Medicine and co-Director of the Medical Research Institute and Acting Dean of Medicine at the University of Dundee. He leads a research team that uses informatics to study the epidemiological and molecular aetiological basis of diabetes and its complications. He also has a major interest in the use of informatics to support research quality improvement and inter-disciplinary patient care nationally. He has published over 200 original papers and has attracted over £20 million in peer reviewed grant funding. 

Andrew is the principal investigator on many clinical studies of new therapeutics of diabetes as well as genetics of diabetes, including the Wellcome Trust United Kingdom Case Control Collection for Type 2 Diabetes that has recruited 20,000 individuals and Generation Scotland, a study of the genetic health in 30,000 Scots. 

He was awarded the RD Lawrence Award by Diabetes UK in 2003, the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was appointed by the Minister for Health and Community Care to be Lead Clinician for Diabetes in Scotland (2002-2006) and led a national programme of quality improvement in diabetes care. In 2009 he co-founded Aridhia Informatics that now employs 50 people in Scotland, with deployments in the UK, Middle East and Australasia. He was appointed as Chief Scientist for Health at the Scottish Government from 1 March 2012.