Peter J. Grant MD, FMedSci

Peter Grant is Professor of Medicine and a Diabetologist at the University of Leeds. He has championed the concept of insulin resistance as an atherothrombotic condition, supporting the view that Diabetes Mellitus is a vascular disease. He has also furthered our understanding of the contribution of genetic variation in coagulation proteins to cardiovascular risk. In particular, he has dissected the role of genetic variation in Factor XIII to altered activation of Factor XIII protein and linked this to risk of thrombosis. He is currently developing small molecule inhibitors of FXIII activation.