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The company builder and patron Bo Hjelt has become honorary doctor at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. The doctoral conferment ceremony was held in Lund on May 24. Bo Hjelt (born 1935) was born and raised in Sweden. He studied economics in Geneva. After being employed at the metal works company, Svenska Metallverken, he started his own business which was to become the multinational comp

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/bo-hjelt-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2026-01-09

Register now for a free, full-day symposium in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 14 June, 2019, hosted by the Nordic Society for Human Genetics and Precision Medicine. This satellite meeting before the annual ESHG conference will feature the latest findings in discovery genetics from the Nordic countries, presented by the next wave of researchers from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. W

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nshg-register-now - 2026-01-09

Presented on June 9 at the 2019 American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions and published in the New England Journal of Medicine (nejm.org), findings from TrialNet’s Teplizumab (anti-CD3) Prevention Study show a drug that targets the immune system can delay type 1 diabetes a median of 2 years in children and adults at high risk. “This is great news for millions of people worldwide imp

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/immunotherapy-delays-type-1-diabetes-diagnosis-people-high-risk - 2026-01-09

The Swedish Society of Medicine has awarded post retirement professor Åke Lernmark at Lund University with the Oscar Medin Prize and SEK 25 000. Åke Lernmark started his research career in type 1 diabetes in the 1970s.He is responsible for the Swedish part of the TEDDY study and TrialNet, among others, in which he has studied why certain children develop type 1 diabetes while others do not.How doe

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ake-lernmark-awarded-his-epoch-making-contributions-children-type-1-diabetes - 2026-01-09

´Digitalization for the benefit of the diabetes patient´ är namnet på en av de fyra så kallade ”Super Sessions”, seminarieserier, vid kommande NLSDays. Det är diabetesvården som ska belysas: hur digitalisering kan förbättra den och vad läkemedelsindustrin gör inom området. Läs artikeln på Medeons blogg

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nlsdays-medeon-och-ludc-ar-vardar-super-session-diabetes - 2026-01-09

The role of gut microbiota in disease and health has become one of today’s hottest fields of research. In her thesis, Louise Brunkwall, nutritionist and doctoral student at Lund University in Sweden, studied overweight, obesity and the importance of diet quality in relation to our gut microbiota.  Obesity arises when the energy intake from what we eat is greater than the energy we consume. However

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/thesis-significance-diet-quality-gut-microbiota - 2026-01-09

Jones Ofori is one of the researchers from LUDC participating in EASD in Barcelona. He will be presenting new findings on miR-200c. Learn more about him and his research here.  I am Jones Ofori and I am originally from Ghana. In 2011 I got the opportunity to pursue a master degree in Molecular biology and Biotechnology at Lund University. During the Master’s program I was privilege to do Master’s

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-micrornas-future-targets-diabetes-treatment - 2026-01-09

Shafqat Ahmad is one of the recipients of the Rising Star Award during the European diabetes conference EASD in Barcelona starting next week. In his work he hopes to identify if dietary meat intake associates with type 2 diabetes risk. - If yes, then we will try to find the dietary meat associated causal biomarkers for type 2 diabetes risk, which hopefully will be used in clinic for type 2 diabete

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-does-dietary-red-and-processed-meat-intake-associate-type-2-diabetes-risk - 2026-01-09

Researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre are awarded 46,3 millions SEK from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The awardees are: Eva Degerman, Andreas Edsfeldt, Lena Eliasson, Paul Franks, Isabel Goncalves, Jan Nilsson, Albert Salehi, Karin Stenkula, Simon Timpka and Enming Zhang.The Swedish Research Council awards research of the highest scientific quality in national competiti

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/46-millions-swedish-reserch-council - 2026-01-09

Insulin which is released by pancreatic beta-cells is the main regulator of blood sugar. Previous and current studies by a research group at Lund University in Sweden have identified around hundred different receptors on the surface of the beta-cells, with a diverse functional impact on the beta-cells. Now researchers at Lund University in collaboration with researchers at University of Sharjah, U

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/key-mechanism-insulin-release-cholesterol-metabolite-found - 2026-01-09

An international research collaboration led by researchers from the Universities of Helsinki and Oxford has identified the biological mechanism through which a genetic variant protects against type 2 diabetes. The study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, finds that changes in a gene which makes zinc transporter proteins reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by enhancing insulin secretion from

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-decodes-gene-function-protects-against-type-2-diabetes - 2026-01-09

There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards: “Usually there is always some kind of organised chaos here!” Louise Brunkwall knew from an early age that she wante

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-01-09

New research shows that it is possible to predict the development of type 1 diabetes. By measuring the presence of autoantibodies in the blood, it is possible to detect whether the immune system has begun to break down the bodys own insulin cells. "In the TEDDY study we have found that autoantibodies often appear during the first few years of life", said professor Åke Lernmark from Lund University

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/early-signs-young-children-predict-type-1-diabetes - 2026-01-09

New results from the Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study showed an association between prolonged enterovirus infection and the development of autoimmunity to the insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells that precedes type 1 diabetes (T1D). Notably, researchers also found that early adenovirus C infection seemed to confer protection from autoimmunity. The full findings

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unexpected-viral-behavior-linked-type-1-diabetes-high-risk-children - 2026-01-09

Sweden and Denmark are among the countries in the world with the highest type-1 diabetes prevalence. Both countries have a long tradition of excellent research and treatment, and with the new joint diabetes project DiaUnion, supported by the EU's Interreg program, we are bridging research among the two countries to jointly put in an extra effort to fight the deadly disease. The DiaUnion project st

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/denmark-and-sweden-join-forces-against-diabetes - 2026-01-09

Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lipid profile can also be linked to a certain diet and degree of physical activity.

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2026-01-09

Niels Grarup, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen, will recieve the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research. In his research, he has shown, among other things, that there is a genetic explanation for the increase in type 2 diabetes in Greenland. The prize, worth SEK 100 000, is sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordis

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/award-research-gene-increases-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2026-01-09

One of Europe’s largest type 1 diabetes research cooperations has passed a significant milestone: The international platform GPPAD (“The Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes”) has successfully included 520 babies across Europe in the type 1 diabetes prevention trial POInT (Primary Oral Insulin Trial) – half of the targeted 1040 participants. The POInT study aims to train the i

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/halfway-there-biggest-type-1-diabetes-prevention-trial-babies-reaches-important-milestone - 2026-01-09

Stina Ramne is the recipient of the DPLU PhD Student Prize 2019. In her research in nutritional epidemiology she focuses on intake of added sugar and risk of diabetes and cardiometabolic disease.

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/video-dplu-phd-student-prize-2019-stina-ramne - 2026-01-09

The more sugar we eat, the lower intake of vitamins and minerals we have, show new findings from Lund University Diabetes Centre. High sugar intake has been associated with numerous diseases and conditions such as dental caries, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this study the researcher have examined the effect of added sugar - that is sugar added to food and beverages during proc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/more-sugar-less-vitamins-study-shows - 2026-01-09