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In Skåne, newborn babies can be screened for type 1 diabetes and celiac disease (gluten intolerance). To raise awareness about the screening we will be running an information campain on all commuter trains and busses in Skåne during week 15 and 19. Children found to be at risk are eligable to participate in our prevention studies POInT or PreCiSe.More informationPI: Helena Elding Larsson

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/screening-t1d-and-celiac-disease - 2025-12-09

The 3rd Joint EASD Islet Study Group and Beta-Cell Workshop gathered experts in islet cell biology - mainly beta cells - ranging from development to function and with a focus on both type 1- and type 2-diabetes. This year the EASD islet study group and the bi-annual beta cell workshop were merged gathering current islet cell research in one and the same meeting. Lund University Diabetes Centre was

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/3rd-joint-easd-islet-study-group-and-beta-cell-workshop - 2025-12-09

In Skåne, newborn babies can be screened for type 1 diabetes and celiac disease (gluten intolerance). More than expected have been found to have an increased risk of developing these diseases, and about thirty children have already been recruited for research studies aimed at lowering this risk. Large-scale screening of newborn children in Skåne started in the summer of 2018 and will last until 20

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/screening-finds-children-high-risk-type-1-diabetes-and-celiac-disease - 2025-12-09

David Nicholls, professor emeritus of Mitochondrial Physiology at the Buck Institute in Novato, California and mentor at the Lund University Diabetes Centre, has become a member of the British Royal Society. The society’s fellows include many of the world’s most eminent scientists. “I feel immensely honoured!” says David Nicholls. David Nicholls knew from a very early age that he wanted to be invo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-researcher-elected-british-royal-society - 2025-12-09

In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review article published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism. Epigenetic mechanisms (see fact box) cont

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes - 2025-12-09

Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University Diabetes Centre shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women. Gestational diabetes is characterized by impaired insulin product

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-12-09

Helena Elding Larsson, senior physician and associate professor at Lund University, has been awarded 1,1 million SEK from Odd Fellow Orden Sweden. Helena Elding Larsson has been awarded a gift as support for a research project aiming to study if oral insulin given to children from 4-7 months of age to 3 years, with high genetic risk, can prevent the development of beta cell autoantibodies and late

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ludc-researcher-awarded - 2025-12-09

We are now looking for a new grant manager! The grant manager has a central role in connecting different stakeholders in the environment and from this position be involved in designing diverse centre activities. The position is full-time and is limited to six months. Start as soon as possible. For more information about the position, and apply

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/open-position-grant-manager - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

´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 - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

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 - 2025-12-09

Yang De Marinis is presenting new results on a protein that predicts and mediates typ 2 diabetes. Learn more about her and her research here. Yang De Marinis is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University. Dr. Yang De Marinis received her PhD degree in 2010 at Lund University on electrophysiology. She was then a Postdoc fellow between 2010-2015 in the l

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-protein-predicts-and-mediates-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-09

One third of the population is more sensitive to melatonin and face a higher risk of getting typ 2-diabetes. Why this is so is a question for Claire Lyons to answer. Learn more about her and her research. Our body clock, or circadian rhythm, controls our daily activities over a 24h period but sometimes this rhythm can become disturbed by shift work, jet lag or even our genetics. The hormone melato

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-melatonin-and-risk-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-09

Paul Franks, Leif Groop, Olle Melander and Peter Nilsson, are among the most cited researchers in the world, according to Web of Science. The list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top one percent by citations for field and year in Web of Science.See full listAbout the

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/worlds-most-cited-researchers - 2025-12-09

Wathik Alsalim presented new findings on persistent whole day meal effects of three DPP-4 inhibitors on incretin- and islet hormones in metformin-treated type 2 diabetes Learn more about the study: Wathik Alsalim work as consultant in the Diabetes and Endocrinology Department at Skåne University Hospital, SUS, in Lund.- Since I was at university, I was interested in diabetes because it has been a

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-dpp-4-inhibition-effects-glycemia-and-islet-hormones-individuals-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-09