LUDC Diabetes Research Day 2026

Junior and senior diabetes researchers give lectures on current research during the day. Talks are also given by the winners of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research, the Leif C. Groop Young Scientist Scholarship, and the LUDC ECN student grants. The event is aimed at anyone with an interest in diabetes research.

The LUDC Diabetes Research Day is arranged by the LUDC Early Career Network (LUDC ECN), a network of young diabetes researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC).

The talks will be followed by a dinner at CRC at 18.30. Register for the event by sending an email to Ulrika Blom-Nilsson by February 25.

Please indicate if you would like to have a lunch sandwich, if you will participate in the dinner and whether you have any dietary requirements. 

Please note that there will be a no-show fee of SEK 500 if registration has been made for dinner and not been cancelled.

E-mail address: ulrika [dot] blom-nilsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (ulrika[dot]blom-nilsson[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)

Programme

11.30-12.00 
Registration and lunch sandwich

12.00-12.05 
Welcome and introduction
Chair: Sabrina Ruhrmann

12.05-13.05 
Keynote speaker: Susanne Mandrup, University of Southern Denmark
Chair: Allan Vaag
“Adipose tissue plasticity in obesity and weight loss at single cell resolution”

13.05-13.10 
Break

13.10-13.30 
Samia Hamdan, Celiac Disease and Diabetes Unit, LUDC, Lund University
Chair: Hanna Hultén

13.30-13.50 
Talk by the recipient of the Leif C. Groop Young Scientist Scholarship
Chair: João Duarte

13.50-14.10
Hong Thuan Tran, Endocrine Cell Differentiation and Function, LUDC, Lund University
Chair: Leonie Mieke Engelhard
“MEIS2-regulated transcriptional programs governing human islet development and adult islet function”

14.10-14.40 
Break with coffee and tea

14.40-15.00 
Talk by the recipient of LUDC ECN student grant
Chair: Ben King

15.00-15.25
Break

15.25-16.15
Patrick MacDonald, University of Alberta, Canada, and Lund University
Chair: Hindrik Mulder
“From islet resources to phenotypic insight: Team science in action!”

16.15-17.15
Talk by Laura Elo, professor of computational medicine at University of Turku and this year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research
Chair: Marju Orho-Melander

17.15-17.35
Avtackning Åke Lernmark 
Chair: Daniel Agardh

17.35-18.30 
Closing remarks by LUDC ECN representatives, followed by mingle in the CRC lunch area on floor 11

18.30 
Dinner in CRC restaurant (registration required)