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.

Oslo Diabetes Research Centre announces a call for applications on occasion of the center’s 30th anniversary in 2020. Applications may only be submitted by members of Oslo Diabetes Research Center.

Read the annual report from the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry.

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

Centre Meeting on Zoom with presentations by Maryam Saeed, Tore Julsrud Berg, Trond Jenssen and Hanne Gulseth on Thursday, September 10.

MD Ingvild Kristine Blom-Høgestøl at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Bone health and quality in subjects with morbid obesity - impact of type 2 diabetes and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) on June 12.

Paz Lopez-Doriga Ruiz is a visitor researcher at the Department of Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.

Beneficial effects on gut microbiota after six weeks of prebiotic fiber supplements in patients with type 2 diabetes.

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.