Gunn-Helen Moen is currently on her second year of her mobility post doctorial research fellowship “Why does low birthweight increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases?” funded by the Norwegian research council. The first two years of this project is being undertaken in Brisbane, Australia with the Evans group at University of Queensland.

Katrina Tibballs is a GP and first year PhD student in Anne Karen Jenum’s group at The Department of General Practice, University of Oslo. A couple of months into her PhD she travelled to Melbourne with her family for a 10-month visit at The Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne.

Cand.med Sindre Lee-Ødegård at Institute for Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Molecular links between physical activity and insulin sensitivity in men” for the degree of Dr.Philos. (Doctor Philosophiae) on Friday, May 8th.

Centre Meeting on Zoom with presentations by Paz Lopez-Doriga Ruiz and Nicolas Fragoso Bargas on Thursday, April 23.

The HEDIMED project aims to find out how environmental factors may contribute to the risk of major immune-mediated diseases: type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, asthma and allergies.

Together with colleagues Jill Norris and Randi Johnson in Colorado, Lars C. Stene have written a solicited review article in the March 2020 issue of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

On Saturday, February 8th we celebrated our 30th anniversary with a succesful anniversary symposium.

Our Annual report from 2019 shows a highly active year with more than 110 research papers published in international scientific journals, within a wide range of topics, from basal, clinical, epidemiological and translational research. More than 50 ongoing research projects are currently running, and seven PhD students defended their theses during the year 2019.

Oslo Diabetes Research Centre celebrates its 30th anniversary in Gamle Festsal at Domus Academica on February 8th!

Cand.med. Espen Nordheim at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Pancreas transplantation and normoglycaemia” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on January 8.

Cand.med. Marit Elizabeth von Düring at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Associations between visceral fat, post transplant diabetes and arterial stiffness in kidney transplant recipients” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on December 12.

World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006. It is marked every year on 14 November.

Reserch seminar on December 19th.

HYPERGLYCAEMIA IN PREGNANCY, BIRTH WEIGHT AND DIABETES IN LATER LIFE

The Norwegian Diabetes Association's research awards are awarded to Professor Kåre I. Birkeland and postdoctoral candidate Christine Sommer, the latter receiving the award for younger researchers.

The award ceremony takes place in Oslo University Hall on World Diabetes Day, November 14th at 6 pm.

At ISPAD 2019 in Boston, USA, there will be 7 presentations from members of Oslo Diabetes Reserach Center.

MD Paz Lopez-Doriga Ruiz at Institute of Clinical Medicine defended the thesis “Influenza, Immunization and Diabetes - the DiaFlu study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on October 22.

Read the annual report from the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry and follow the link (https://bdreg.github.io/) to the new, interactive website.

Cand.med. Simen W. Schive at Institute of Clinical Medicine defended the thesis “Islet allotransplantation in Norway and the potential of adipose tissue-derived stromal cells to improve islet survival” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on October 10.

On Wednesday several presentations from our research center created attention.

Two posters and two oral presentations from Oslo Diabetes Research Center were presented today.