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3 Jun 2020
SOPHIA aims to improve obesity treatment and change the narrative around obesity
Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) will join a new IMI project - SOPHIA - which will contribute to a more patient-centric and equitable narrative around obesity and its multipl...
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29 May 2020
At the intersection of healthcare and academia
The POInT clinic at the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö welcomes parents with their young children. One of the research nurses who sees them is Annika Björne Fors, who coor...
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28 May 2020
Hindrik Mulder is the incoming editor-in-chief of Diabetologia
Research published in the research journal Diabetologia needs to meet a high standard of quality. Most of the manuscripts submitted are rejected. At the start of 2021, Hindrik Muld...
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20 May 2020
Screening reveals early nerve damage
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...
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8 May 2020
Malin Fex winner of the 2020 Minerva leadership award
Future Faculty is pleased to announce the 2020 Minerva Leadership Award winner: associate professor Malin Fex. A webinar with the winner is booked for the 25th of May, 14.30 - 15....
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29 Apr 2020
COVID Symptom Tracker app launched in Sweden
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have launched a free app to help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge of the coronavirus. “Data from the app will g...
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16 Apr 2020
VIDEO: App will predict risk and outbreak of the coronavirus in Sweden
A new app to fight covid-19 in Sweden by tracking symtoms is on its way. Watch professor Paul Franks when he explains the idea behind it.
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5 Apr 2020
Doctoral defense "Corona Style"
The outbreak of covid19 has made us go more virtual than ever. During Oktawia Nilssons doctoral defense her opponent was connected by Zoom, and so was her relatives who could follo...
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31 Mar 2020
Olle Melander awarded ERC Advanced Grants
Olle Melander, professor of Internal Medicine and consultant at Skåne University Hospital, has received the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approxim...
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27 Mar 2020
Apolipoprotein A-I – a good player with a dark side
Oktawia Nilsson's doctoral thesis describes Apolipoprotein A-I (shortly named ApoA-I), the main protein of HDL also known as “the good” cholesterol. Based on the experiments perfor...
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27 Mar 2020
Sweden under fire for ‘relaxed’ coronavirus approach – here’s the science behind it
Article in The Conversation by Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology and Peter M Nilsson, professor of internal medicine - epidemiology at Lund University.
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11 Mar 2020
LUDC top-ranked in national evaluation
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 progra...
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26 Feb 2020
The world's largest stem cell biobank launched
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...
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24 Feb 2020
JDRF award to Åke Lernmark
JDRF honors type 1 diabetes research leaders, among them prof Åke Lernmark, Lund University Diabetes Centre.
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12 Feb 2020
The more sugar the less vitamins study shows
The more sugar we eat, the lower intake of vitamins and minerals we have, show new findings from Lund University Diabetes Centre.
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12 Feb 2020
VIDEO: DPLU PhD Student Prize 2019 to Stina Ramne
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 cardiomet...
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3 Feb 2020
Award for research on the gene that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in Greenland
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. I...
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31 Jan 2020
Halfway there: The biggest type 1 diabetes prevention trial for babies reaches important milestone
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 Autoi...
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17 Dec 2019
Blood lipid profile predicts risk of type 2 diabetes better than obesity
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 b...