Federation of European Biological Societies (FEBS) has nominated Professor Finnbar O’Harte (Ulster University, UK) as a recipient of FEBS National Lecture award. The award will be presented at Chemical Sciences in Biological Challenges Symposium at Kuopio, Finland, June 3-5, 2020. Professor O’Harte has made fundamental contributions in development of stable peptide analogues for therapy of Type 2 diabetes and obesity. In the symposium he will deliver a talk “Apelin-13 peptide analogues versus incretin mimetics for alleviating metabolic dysfunction in diabetes: A comparative study”