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Published 16 October 2019 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 th
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/medeon-stipend-2019 - 2025-07-01
Published 21 October 2019 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. Pontus Dunér, researcher at Lund University Diabetes Centre. Photo: Sara Liedholm The common denominator is a protein that Pontus Dunér and his col
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hair-raising-research-could-lead-diabetes-treatment - 2025-07-01
Published 25 October 2019 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 qua
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/46-millions-swedish-reserch-council - 2025-07-01
Published 31 October 2019 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 a
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/key-mechanism-insulin-release-cholesterol-metabolite-found - 2025-07-01
Published 4 November 2019 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 enhanc
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-decodes-gene-function-protects-against-type-2-diabetes - 2025-07-01
By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 8 November 2019 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 a
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2025-07-01
Published 6 March 2015 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 Lernma
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/early-signs-young-children-predict-type-1-diabetes - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 3 December 2019 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
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unexpected-viral-behavior-linked-type-1-diabetes-high-risk-children - 2025-07-01
Published 17 December 2019 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 disea
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/denmark-and-sweden-join-forces-against-diabetes - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 17 December 2019 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.
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 3 February 2020 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 G
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/award-research-gene-increases-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 31 January 2020 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 Ora
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 12 February 2020 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. In the video Stina Ramne describes her reserach and the project she got the DPLU Student Prize for.
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/video-dplu-phd-student-prize-2019-stina-ramne - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 12 February 2020 The more sugar we eat, the lower intake of vitamins and minerals we have, show new findings from Lund University Diabetes Centre. Esther González-Padilla Photo: Sara Liedholm High sugar intake has been associated with numerous diseases and conditions such as dental caries, obesity, diabetes, and cardiova
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/more-sugar-less-vitamins-study-shows - 2025-07-01
Published 24 February 2020 JDRF honors type 1 diabetes research leaders, among them prof Åke Lernmark, Lund University Diabetes Centre. JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, has announced the winners of five prestigious research awards: the George Eisenbarth Award for T1D Prevention; the Gerold and Kayla Grodsky Basic Research Scientist Award; the Mary Tyler
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/jdrf-award-ake-lernmark - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 26 February 2020 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease make up the world’s most common diseases. A new biobank at Lund University in Sweden - the largest of its kind - with stem cells from both those affected and healthy individuals, will contribute to an increased understanding of how the
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/worlds-largest-stem-cell-biobank-launched - 2025-07-01
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 11 March 2020 Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) was ranked as one of Sweden's three best research environments in the medical sciences in the Final Evaluation of the Linnaeus funding program. - It was really gratifying to read the report. We are very proud to see how the long-term efforts have paid off and positione
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ludc-top-ranked-national-evaluation - 2025-07-01
Published 16 March 2020 Message from the LUDC Executive Board. Photo by CDC on Unsplash Dear Friends and colleagues,We are all now well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in Sweden and around the world. There is a lot of information to digest. Some of this is factual and helpful, but there is also a great deal of poorly informed speculation, that risks promoting anxiety and panic.
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/updates-covid-19 - 2025-07-01
Published 20 May 2020 A method that will quickly and easily detect diabetic neuropathy, nerve damage caused by high blood sugar, is under development. The aim is to identify individuals in the risk zone so that it is possible to initiate early treatment to prevent, or even reverse, the development. Neuropathy can be difficult to diagnose. It covers many different nerve types, can express itself in
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/screening-reveals-early-nerve-damage - 2025-07-01
Published 27 March 2020 Article in The Conversation by Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology and Peter M Nilsson, professor of internal medicine - epidemiology at Lund University. Photo by CDC on Unsplash A growing number of Swedish doctors and scientists are raising alarm over the Swedish government’s approach to COVID-19. Unlike its Nordic neighbours, Sweden has adopted a relatively rel
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/sweden-under-fire-relaxed-coronavirus-approach-heres-science-behind-it - 2025-07-01
