Research Advisory Board

Our Research Advisory Board comprises experts in a wide variety of research disciplines to ensure that all applications are assessed knowledgably and fairly.

As a member of the Association of Medical Research Charities we are committed to maintaining a rigorous peer review process for the assessment of research applications, for which the Advisory Board are responsible. This process ensures that only the highest quality research at the best institutions receives DRWF funding. When we are awarding a DRWF Fellowship, we are also intent on rewarding determined and committed individuals who have a proven track record in diabetes research and can display an intention to continue working in the field. It is our hope that a DRWF Fellowship can serve as a significant and fruitful step in the career of a bright, young and ambitious researcher.

Our current Board members are:

Professor Stephen Gough, PhD MD FRCP (Chairman) Professor of Medicine and Hon. Consultant Physician, University of Birmingham and University of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. More »

Professor Julian Paul Hamilton-Shield MB,ChB, MD(Bristol), MRCP, FRCPCH Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol. More »
Professor Paul Johnson, MBChB MD FRCS Director of Oxford Islet Transplant Programme and Professor of Paediatric Surgery, University of Oxford. More »
Dr Krystyna Matyka MB BS, MRCP, MD Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at Warwick Medical School. Krystyna runs a weight management clinic for children with problems of excess weight and is a member of the Paediatric Diabetes Clinical team at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. More »
Dr Ewan Pearson PhD MB BChir MRCP Clinical Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology, NHS Tayside.
Professor Shanta Persaud, PhD Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology, King’s College London. More »
Professor John Wilding, FRCP Reader in Medicine, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool. More »
Professor Alan Stitt CWS Scientific Director, McCauley Chair of Experimental Ophthalmology Prof Stitt’s programme of research is focused on pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy. More »
Professor Guy A. Rutter Chair in Cell Biology and Head of Cell Biology My interests in cell signalling and metabolic control began in 1985 and a PhD with RM (Dick) Denton FRS in Bristol on the regulation by Ca2+ of mitochondrial dehydrogenases. More »
Dr Paul Squires Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and previous Diabetes UK, RD Lawrence Research Fellow (King’s College London) More »
Parth Narendran Parth Narendran qualified from Kings College London in 1992 and undertook his post-graduate clinical training in Manchester, Bristol and London. More »
Dr Ewan Pearson PhD MB BChir MRCP Clinical Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology, NHS Tayside. More »