About
Rajarshi (Rishi) is a MRC / GSK Surgeon Scientist alongside an Honorary Consultant General & Major Trauma Surgeon with the NHS University Hospitals Liverpool Group. His current research bridges academia with industry and is aimed at transforming the treatment of critical illness through the development of next-generation therapies for pancreatitis induced acute lung injury through the utilisation of cutting-edge AI driven drug discovery approaches. He has a strong track record in research that spans the translational spectrum, with strengths in discovery science related to acute pancreatitis pathophysiology and mitochondrial injury, novel in vitro and in vivo experimental assay development and clinical translational research, including novel biomarker studies and clinical trials.
Rishi is the only surgeon in the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland's history to be twice awarded the Lord Rodney Smith Medal for his translational research (2007 & 2009) and had also been awarded European Pancreatic Club, American Pancreatic Association, International Association of Pancreatology and International Union of Physiological Sciences Young Investigator Awards alongside the Royal Society of Medicine Basic Science in Surgery (MIA) prize and most recently the Hunterian Professorship, 2024, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Prizes or Honours
- Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement Team Award - Liverpool Pancreatitis research group (University of Liverpool, 2024)
- Hunterian Professorship (Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2024)
- Clinical Lecturer Prize - First Place (University of Liverpool, 2016)
- Young Investigator Award and Best Plenary Paper Prize (International Association of Pancreatology, 2011)
- Basic Science in Surgery (MIA) Prize (Royal Society of Medicine, 2011)
- Lord Rodney Smith Medal and Prize (Pancreatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2009)
- Young Investigator Travel Award (International Union of Physiological Sciences, 2009)
- American Pancreatic Association Travel Award (American Pancratic Association, 2008)
- Awarded Lord Rodney Smith Medal & Prize (Pancreatic Society GB & Ireland, 2007)
- Distinction in Surgery (Cambridge University School of Medicine, 2004)
- Distinction in Medicine (Cambridge University School of Medicine, 2004)
- First Prize Junior Doctor's Competition (Hinchingbrooke Helathcare Trust, 2004)
- Henry Roy Dean Prize (Cambridge University, 2003)
- Paton Award (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2003)
- Trinity College Cambridge Senior Scholarship (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2001)
- Trinity College Examination prize (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2001)
- Paton Award (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2000)
Funded Fellowships
- NIHR Research Scholar (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2022 - 2023)
- NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2013 - 2017)
- Amelie Waring Fellowship (Guts UK, 2007 - 2010)
- NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2007)