Melanie Davies is professor of diabetes medicine at the University of Leicester and an honorary consultant diabetologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She is the co-director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Professor Davies’ research interests include the causes, screening, prevention, self-management, and treatment of type 2 diabetes.
She is a National Institutes for Health (NIH) research senior investigator emeritus and director of the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre and co-chair of EASD/ADA’s consensus report on type 2 diabetes management.
Professor Davies has published over 960 original articles and has over £160 million in grant funding. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 New Year’s Honour’s List for services to diabetes research.