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Prize winner 2024

Tune H Pers, associate professor of cellular biology at the University of Copenhagen

Prize motivation

Tune H Pers at the University of Copenhagen receives the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research in 2024 for research that has increased the understanding of how specific brain areas and cell populations regulate glycemic control, energy homeostasis, and genetic predisposition to obesity. His groundbreaking research combines genetic data, single-cell technologies and machine learning and could lead to new treatments for patients with obesity or type 2 diabetes.

Portrait of Tune H Pers. Photograph.
Tune H Pers is the recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research in 2024. Photograph: Peter Andrew Stanners
26 Feb 2024