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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Who will be the winner of the Leif C. Groop award for outstanding diabetes research 2018? Deadline for nominations October 31. Nomination form, instructions and information about previous winners
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/leif-c-groop-award-time-nomination - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The islets of Langerhans in the pancreas contain not only insulin-producing cells, but also four other hormone-producing cell types. Using a new method, researchers are to study their interaction by mapping previously unknown genetic networks. “It will give us new possibilities to direct medicines at new targets”, say
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/mapping-mechanisms-behind-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tord Ajanki started diabetesportalen.se just over a decade ago. Now he is to relinquish the editorship and retire. “It feels strange, good in one way, but it’s difficult to stop doing something that you have been involved in for so long”, he says. Tord Ajanki initially trained as a nurse. “My wife and I wanted to sav
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/father-diabetesportalense-retires - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The complement proteins that circulate in our blood are an important part of our immune system. They help identify bacteria, viruses and other harmful organisms, making it easier for our white blood cells to find and neutralise dangerous microbes. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered a previous
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-function-key-component-immune-system-discovered - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The TEDDY Study has increased our knowledge about what happens prior to the onset of autoimmune diabetes (type 1 diabetes) and has shown that a stomach infection can trigger coeliac disease. Lund University in Sweden has now received just over SEK 40 million from the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) to con
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-diabetes-study-receives-sek-40-million-continue - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can insulin absorbed in small doses through food in early childhood get the immune system accustomed to insulin and thereby delay – or prevent – type 1 diabetes? Researchers hope to find the answer through POInT, a study starting in Skåne this autumn. Newborn babies in Skåne with a high risk of autoimmune diabetes (ty
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-babies-skane-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By blocking a protein, VDAC1, in the insulin-producing beta cells, it is possible to restore their normal function in case of type 2 diabetes. In preclinical experiments, the researchers behind a new study have also shown that it is possible to prevent the development of the disease. The findings are published in the
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-discovery-restores-insulin-cell-function-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the so far largest clinical study of the development of microbiomes, i.e. intestinal flora, in infants, researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine, USA, have found that development takes place in different phases that can be associated with lifestyle changes during the early stages in life. The findings are base
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-intestinal-flora-development-infants - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On November 30th a well-attended seminar rocusing on issues needed to consider already at an early stage when developing e-Health solutions was organized by LUDC Innovation Office, the Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, and Medeon Science Park. Patrik Midlöv presented some examples of e-Health studies performed at
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/e-health-what-needed-research-reach-clinical-benefit - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How far has precision medicine come? What challenges are we facing within clinical and translational research? See the seminar on metabolic research in retrospect. (Most of the lectures are held in Swedish) Precision medicine: a global overviewPaul Franks, professor, Lund University Diabetes CentreIn English Vilka är
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/metabolic-research-today-and-beyond - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Registration is now open for The Smooth Muscle Conference, taking place July 14-19, 2019, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Organized by Chairs Jonathan Jaggar, PhD, University of Tennessee; and Maria Gomez, PhD, Lund University, with support from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), this
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/register-now-faseb-science-research-conference-src-smooth-muscle-conference - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What do muffins and space travel have in common? Answer: They affect our genes through altered DNA methylation patterns. Two researchers who studied this recently met at the public defence of a doctoral thesis at Lund University. Andrew Feinberg from Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, has
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/big-data-muffins-and-space-travel - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Eric Lander, a long time collaborator of the diabetes researchers at LUDC, has been appointed as scientific advisor to Barack Obama, the new president of the United States. Eric Lander is an honorary doctor at the faculty of medicine at Lund University and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of LUDC. - It’s an hon
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ludc-and-president-obama-have-same-scientific-advisor - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 350 international top scientists are gathering in Malmö to attend the 10th international congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society (IDS). The focus of the congress will be on how to prevent and cure type 1 diabetes. -Malmö hosting such an event underlines Lund University Diabetes Centre’s (LUDC) position at the a
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-scientific-congress-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In competition with about ten other European consortia, Lund University and collaborators have received a research grant of approximately 150 million SEK. The money, which is given by the European Union, will be complemented by funding from the pharmaceutical industry. The funding will be used to advance in the battle
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unified-european-effort-fight-diabetic-complicati - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A common variant of the melatonin receptor gene increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This discovery was made by two research groups at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), and reveals a completely new mechanism underlying diabetes. The finding, presented in the latest issue of the scientific journal Na
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unexpected-link-between-diabetes-and-sleep-hormone-melatonin - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Heart attack and stroke afflicts many in spite of them having few or no known risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, changes in blood fat or smoking. -Because of this it is important to be able to identify those at risk who would benefit from preventive treatment, says Olle Melander, docent at Lund Univer
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-risk-markers-discovered-cardiac-infarction-and-stroke - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The risk of becoming obese is 2.5 times higher for those who have double copies of the best known risk gene for overweight and obesity. However, this is only true if the fat consumption is high. A low fat diet neutralizes the harmful effects of the gene. “This means that the critical factor is what you eat. At least i
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/food-habits-are-more-important-most-important-obesity-risk-gene - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Type 2 diabetes is often not caused by a lack of insulin per se, but an inability of the beta cells to secrete adequate amounts of it. Recently, scientists at LUDC have identified a previously unknown agent that plays an important role in the release of insulin. Knock-out mice that lack the ClC3 protein have a severel
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/happy-insulin-cell-needs-be-sour - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Children participating in the DiPiS and TEDDY studies, who are at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes, have the possibility to receive GAD vaccine. The hope is that this will stop the process and prevent the children from falling ill. Some of the children who have an increased risk of type 1 diabetes start produci
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/vaccine-offered-children-i-skania-sweden-high-risk-diabetes - 2026-05-05
