Richard Holt trained at the University of Cambridge and the London Hospital Medical College. He undertook his post-graduate training in diabetes and endocrinology in the South East Thames Region. While a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow, he completed a PhD on the growth hormone – insulin-like growth factor axis in childhood liver disease. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Southampton in May 2000, was promoted to Reader in March 2006 and became Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology in September 2008.

My research interests are focused around clinical diabetes and growth hormone. Within clinical diabetes, I have an active research programme examining the links between diabetes and mental illness and the psychosocial issues of diabetes. I have also undertaken research in diabetes in pregnancy and was a member of the NICE Diabetes and Pregnancy Guideline Development Group. I am working with the World Anti-Doping Agency and UK Sport to develop a test to detect athletes who are abusing GH.