Novo Nordisk Fellowships

Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at Karolinska Institutet

This fellowship programme aims to support the development of a new generation of exceptional young diabetes and metabolism researchers, to become future leaders in the field, while further developing scientific excellence within these areas ultimately improving the lives of patients.

Call for project proposals 2019

The Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at KI was initiated in 2015 and has completed four rounds of recruitments and we have to date appointed 17 postdoctoral fellows. This call is, thus, the first step in our fifth round of recruitment of 3 postdoctoral fellows for an expected start date in the autumn of 2019. Deadline for applications - Tuesday 22 January, 2019.

Call for project proposals

Template for application

Overview

Based at Karolinska Institutet, Fellows will undertake cutting edge research projects, mentored by front-line researchers in the field of diabetes and metabolism. In addition, it is anticipated that during the course of the fellowships, fellows will have the opportunity to spend approximately 3 months in the research laboratories at Novo Nordisk in Copenhagen. Thus, Fellows will gain insight into research conducted in both academia and industry. In order to increase coherence around the Fellowship programme, a number of events will be held throughout the year such as high profile lectures, symposia, etc. which the fellows will attend, both at Karolinska Institutet and at Novo Nordisk in Copenhagen.

• The postdoctoral research fellowships are aimed at early career researchers with a basic science background.
• Fellowships are fully funded for a 3-year period providing salary as well as travel allowance for the fellow.
• The fellowship programme is open to outstanding candidates of any nationality.

Workshops and meetings

Earlier Novo Nordisk-KI workshops:

Programme from workshop September 27, 2018 can be downloaded here

Programme from workshop October 11, 2017 can be downloaded here

Programme from workshop November 10, 2016 can be downloaded here

Current fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow	Principal Investigator
Dr Isabel Cordero Herrera	Assoc Prof Mattias Carlström, Renal and Cardiovascular Research, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr Lucile Dollet	Prof Anna Krook and Prof Juleen Zierath, Section of Integrative Physiology, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr Sanna Hellberg	Assoc Prof Stephen Malin and Prof Göran K Hansson, Cardiovascular Research, Dept of Medicine Solna
Dr Alastair Kerr	Assoc Prof Ingrid Dahlman, Lipid Laboratory, Dept of Medicine Huddinge
Dr Lars Ketscher	Assoc Prof Jorge Ruas, Molecular and cellular exercise physiology group, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr Kelvin Kwok	Assoc Prof Carsten Daub, Prof Mikael Rydén and Prof Peter Arner, Dept of Medicine Huddinge
Dr Annika Mehlem	Assoc Prof Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Reproductive endocrinology and metabolism, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr Noah Moruzzi	Assoc Prof Ingo Leibiger, Insulin Receptor Signalling, Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Dr Nicole Schmitner	Ass Prof Olov Andersson, Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology
Dr Vladimir Shavva	Prof Peder Olofsson, Dept of Medicine, Solna
Dr Daniel Svensson	Assoc Prof Hjalmar Brismar and Prof Anita Aperia, Paediatric cell and molecular biology, Dept of Women’s and Children’s Health
Dr SoileTuomela	Prof Malin Flodström Tullberg, Dept of Medicine Huddinge
Dr Montserrat Visa	Prof Per-Olof Berggren, Signal Transduction, Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery

Alumni

Dr Pauline Vercruysse

Dr Ester Bachar-Wikström

Programme Steering Committee

Contact

NovoNordiskFellowship@mmk.ki.se

Programme Manager

Håkan Karlsson