Leicester Diabetes Centre at University Hospitals of Leicest

Who We Are

Founded in 2012, the Leicester Diabetes Centre is a unique, collaborative partnership between the NHS and the University of Leicester. We have strong links with our local population, and are led by two of the top ten world diabetes experts.  

Professor Melanie Davies Cbe

Professor Davies is a clinician and one of the UK’s leading clinical researchers. Along with Professor Kamlesh Khunti, she leads the Diabetes Research Centre based at the Leicester Diabetes Centre, one of the largest clinical research groups in diabetes in the UK. 

Professor Davies, who collected her CBE in 2016 for services to diabetes research, is a Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester and practising Consultant at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She has published many academic articles and been recognised by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) as one of England's most successful researchers.

She is the National Lead for the DESMOND Programme and Director of the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Professor Davies is one of the few senior investigators for the NIHR within the field of diabetes research.

Our Facilities

The Leicester Diabetes Centre is a clinical facility located on-site at the Leicester General Hospital. The LDC has in excess of 6000m2 of clinical research space accommodating our multidisciplinary team. The centre provides access to:

• State-of-the-art clinical experimental medicine infrastructure

• Spacious seminar rooms

• Virtual consultation facilities

• Research laboratories including biopsy rooms, clinical assessment suites, exercise laboratories

• Microvascular Imaging Suite

• Biomarker discovery and analysis laboratory

• BioBank

• DXA Machine

• Indirect calorimetery

• Multidisciplinary diabetes foot clinic

• Latest technology for type 1 management