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Shanta Persaud is a Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences and Head of the Guy’s Campus Section. She has a first-class BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology and a Ph.D. in the regulation of insulin secretion from islets of Langerhans. She lectures on diabetes and endocrinology to BSc students and runs training workshops for MSc and PhD students. Her main research interests lie in investigating ligand interactions with islet G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and signal transduction pathways involved in the secretion of islet hormones and beta-cell mass regulation. Other key areas of research include defining human endocrine pancreas developmental trajectories; cross-talk between metabolically active cells and islets and stimulus-response coupling in human islets.

Peter Jones is a Professor of Endocrine Biology in the Diabetes Research Group at the Guy’s Campus of King’s College London.  He obtained his Ph.D. at the National Institute for Medical Research (London) studying peptide hormones in the central nervous system.  He started working on β-cell function in diabetes as a postdoctoral fellow at Queen Elizabeth College in 1984. He was awarded an R.D. Lawrence Fellowship by the British Diabetic Association, followed by a Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship, after which he took up an academic position as Lecturer in Physiology at King’s. He was awarded the British Diabetic Association R.D. Lawrence Lecture for 1997 and the Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture for 2015 in recognition of his work on β-cell function. His research interests remain with the β-cell, with a current focus on islet transplantation therapy for Type 1 diabetes and on novel therapeutic targets for Type 2 diabetes.