Chair: Professor Roy Taylor

Roy Taylor qualified at the University of Edinburgh, and is now Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Newcastle University. He founded the Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre in 2006 to develop innovative research techniques. Using these methods, he confirmed his 2008 Twin Cycle Hypothesis of the aetiology of type 2 diabetes, showing it to be a simple, reversible condition of excess fat within liver and pancreas. This has led to widespread practical application including in the NHS with the national Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission programme (commenced 2021). Most recently he validated his Personal Fat Threshold concept by demonstrating that weight loss in people with T2D of ‘normal BMI’ resulted in the same reversal of the basic mechanisms and achieved remisison. This led to the important principle that if a person develops true T2D they are simply too heavy for their own consititution.