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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-dpp-4-inhibition-effects-glycemia-and-islet-hormones-individuals-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 border

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/prestigious-prize-goes-pioneer-bioinformatics - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 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 - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/medeon-stipend-2019 - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 inte

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hair-raising-research-could-lead-diabetes-treatment - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Researc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/46-millions-swedish-reserch-council - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/key-mechanism-insulin-release-cholesterol-metabolite-found - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 transporte

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-decodes-gene-function-protects-against-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 always some kind

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 duri

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/early-signs-young-children-predict-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 early adenovi

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unexpected-viral-behavior-linked-type-1-diabetes-high-risk-children - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 jo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/denmark-and-sweden-join-forces-against-diabetes - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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. The blood lip

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Greenland. The

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/award-research-gene-increases-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2026-05-01

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 Oral Insulin Trial) – half of the targeted 1040 participants. The POInT study aims to train the i

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/halfway-there-biggest-type-1-diabetes-prevention-trial-babies-reaches-important-milestone - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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.

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/video-dplu-phd-student-prize-2019-stina-ramne - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The more sugar we eat, the lower intake of vitamins and minerals we have, show new findings from Lund University Diabetes Centre. High sugar intake has been associated with numerous diseases and conditions such as dental caries, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this study the researcher have examined

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/more-sugar-less-vitamins-study-shows - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/jdrf-award-ake-lernmark - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 these diseases ar

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/worlds-largest-stem-cell-biobank-launched - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 positioned LUDC amon

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ludc-top-ranked-national-evaluation - 2026-05-01