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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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
´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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
Professor Søren Brunak from Copenhagen - member of the LUDC-IRC Scientific Advisory Board - has been awarded the grand Nordic Prize for 2019 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. It is one of the largest Scandinavian research prizes in medicine and Søren Brunak receives the award for his work as a pioneer in the borderland between mathematical analysis and biomedical research – a field that paves t
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/prestigious-prize-goes-pioneer-bioinformatics - 2025-12-03
Who will be the winner of the Leif C. Groop award for outstanding diabetes research 2019? Dead-line for nominations is November 8. Nomination form, instructions and information about previous winners.
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/leif-c-groop-award-time-nomination-0 - 2025-12-03
The Medeon stipend for SEK 50.000 is given by Medeon Science Park in connection to Moll Wendén Advokatbyrå and this time it is associate professor Emma Ahlqvist who is awarded. "Docent Emma Ahlqvist is awarded 2019 years Medeon-stimpen for her pioneering research within genetics and diabetes. Her clinical subgrouping of diabetes has won world reputation and will paves the way for better individua
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/medeon-stipend-2019 - 2025-12-03
Is it possible to conduct research on type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and hair loss at the same time? Absolutely, says Pontus Dunér who after many years of secrecy can now lift the lid on and talk about his promising results. The common denominator is a protein that Pontus Dunér and his colleagues have worked on intensively in recent years to modify and break down into smaller active components,
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hair-raising-research-could-lead-diabetes-treatment - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
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 - 2025-12-03
