Peteris Tretjakovs currently works as a Professor and Head of the Department of Human Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Riga Stradins University. He received a Master’s degree in Biology from the Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Latvian Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine in 1995. He is a member of the Latvian Society of Laboratory Specialists. His research interests include the study of clinically useful biomarkers in the prevention and management of obesity-related diseases, focusing on new and early risk factors of type-2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease and, for these purposes, developing non-invasive techniques (e.g., laser Doppler flowmetry and imaging, intravital videocapillaroscopy, transcutaneous gas monitoring) for the evaluation of vasomotor/neurovascular dysfunction and methods (e.g., xMAP) for testing the expression of risk cytokines, growth factors and gene polymorphism, insulin resistance, etc. He won the “Distinguished Research Award” (2005), which was awarded by the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences.