Prof. Peter R. Flatt holds a DSc from Ulster University and a BSc Hons and PhD from Aston University. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Uppsala, Sweden (1978-80) before taking up an academic appointment at Surrey University in 1980. He is currently Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Ulster University, a position that he has held since 1989. Prof. Flatt is Head of the Diabetes Research Centre, having served as Director of the Biomedical Sciences Research Centre (1992-94), Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences (1994-97), and Director of the Biomedical Sciences research Institute (2016-23). Prof. Flatt is the founding Chairman (1991-) of the Islet Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), member of the EASD Council (1997-01), Scientific Secretary & Committee Member of Diabetes UK (1991-97; 2001-04), Member of European Incretin Study Group (2022-), and a member of the Grants Review Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Federation International (1996-99). He is recipient of the Mary Jane Kugal Award (1999) of the Juvenile Diabetes Federation International, Biochemical Society Medal (2005), and was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy (2006), University Distinguished Senior Research Fellowship (2006) and Diabetes UK Dorothy Hodgkin Award Lecturer (2008). Patent holder, Academic co-founder, and Chief Scientific Officer/Director of Diabetica Ltd and academic founder of DiaBeta Labs. He was awarded MBE by KIng Charles IIII in 2025.