Published 3 September 2019 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.  The three risk factors behind obesity Obesity arises when the energy intak

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Published 9 September 2019 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. Jones Ofori, Lund University Diabetes Centre.  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 Lun

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Published 9 September 2019 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 i

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Published 10 September 2019 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, assistant professor at Lund University. Photo: Johan Bävman Yang De Marinis is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University. Dr. Yang De Marinis received her PhD degree

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Published 13 September 2019 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. Claire Lyons, Lund University Diabetes Centre Our body clock, or circadian rhythm, controls our daily activities over a 24h period but sometimes this rhythm can become

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Published 19 September 2019 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 Sci

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Published 20 September 2019 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 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 in

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Published 24 September 2019 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 res

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Published 8 October 2019 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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 - 2025-05-13

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 - 2025-05-13