Oslo Diabetes Research Centre announces a Young Investigator Award for the best publication published between December 1, 2020 and December 1, 2021

The Norwegian Diabetes Association's research awards are awarded to Sindre Lee-Ødegård and Lars Christian Stene.

Read the annual report from the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry.

It was with great grief and sorrow we received the sad news that Cecilie passed away on June 28.

Gunn-Helen Moen has received funding for the project “Developing and Applying New Statistical Models to Test for Transgenerational Effects of Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy” from the Research Council of Norway.

MD Ingun Toftemo at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis Childhood obesity in a multiethnic society. Early life risk factors and communication with parents for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on June 8.

Review article by Julia Onsrud Opsahl et al. in the June issue of JDOHaD: “Epigenetic signatures associated with maternal body mass index or gestational weight gain: a systematic review”

New article by Kari Anne Sveen et al. in Diabetes Care: “Autoantibodies Against Methylglyoxal-Modified Apolipoprotein B100 and ApoB100 Peptide Are Associated With Less Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis and Retinopathy in Long-Term Type 1 Diabetes”

MSc Eline Birkeland at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis The Fiberdia study: Effects of inulin-type fructans on gut microbiota and regulation of blood glucose and appetite in type 2 diabetes: A randomised, placebo-controlled crossover trial for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on April 23.

Our Annual report from 2020 shows a highly active year with nearly one hundred papers published in international scientific journals, within a wide range of topics, from basal, clinical, epidemiological and translational research. More than 50 research projects are currently running, and four PhD students defended their theses during the year 2020.

For 30 years, Kåre Birkeland has been a pioneering researcher on diabetes spanning a broad spectrum of research fields, both in Norway and internationally. He is receiving the 2021 Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture prize.

New article by Maryam Saeed et al. in Diabetes Care: “Serum Galectin-3 and Subsequent Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Subjects With Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: A Cohort Study”

Kåre Birkeland's Research Group for Type 2 diabetes and Metabolism at Oslo Diabetes Research Centre has entered into a collaborative research project with the Estonian company IPDx funded by the Green ICT programme (Norway-Estonia).

Do you need basic clinical knowledge about diabetes? Join one or more of the Norwegian Diabetes Association's webinars that is arranged in the period December 1st to January 14th. Spend ninety minutes of your time to listen to one or more of these lectures, many of them held by members of our research centre.

New estimates published in Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening show that 316,000–345,000 have diabetes in Norway. This is the situation before World Diabetes Day, which is marked on 14 November.

The Norwegian Diabetes Association's research awards are awarded to Professor Trond Geir Jenssen and postdoctoral candidate Line WIsting, the latter receiving the award for younger researchers.

Earlier this autumn, Oslo Diabetes Research Centre announced a call for applications on occasion of the center’s 30th anniversary in 2020. We received several applications and six projects are awarded funding.

New article by Sindre Lee et al. in Diabetologia: “Branched-chain amino acid metabolism, insulin sensitivity and liver fat response to exercise training in sedentary dysglycaemic and normoglycaemic men”

New article by Gunn-Helen Moen et al. in Nature Communications: “Mendelian randomization study of maternal influences on birthweight and future cardiometabolic risk in the HUNT cohort”

Presentations from members of Oslo Diabetes Research Center at ISPAD 2020.