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 applications 2018 closed

Call for this years applications for postdoctoral fellowships has closed. We are very pleased with the response with almost 100 applications received. The selection process is underway with the aim of having the awarded candidates starting from fall 2018.

Overview

The programme was initiated in 2015 with the plan to include three annual recruitments. The third recruitment was completed in 2017 and the programme now includes 13 outstanding postdoctoral researchers that have been selected for fellowships in stiff competition with several hundreds of applicants. 

We are happy to announce that the programme has been extended and expanded to include another three rounds of annual recruitments (2018-20). This call is thus our fourth round of recruitment of postdoctoral fellows, this time with an expected start date in the autumn of 2018. Future calls are also planned for the spring in 2019 and 2020.

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

Novo Nordisk-KI workshop Sept 27, 2018: The Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at KI organizes a workshop seminar with speakers from Novo Nordisk and Karolinska Institutet on September 27th, 2018. Venue is CMB lecture hall, Berzelius väg 21 at KI Campus Solna. Please see program with invited speakers.

Participation is free of charge and includes lunch sandwiches and coffee why we need your registration latest September 20th. Please email Arja Kants, Arja.Kants@ki.se, to confirm your participation and inform of any food restrictions.

Earlier Novo Nordisk-KI workshops:

Programme for workshop October 11, 2017: download here

Programme from workshop November 10, 2016 can be downloaded here

Postdoctoral fellows recruited

Postdoctoral Fellow	Principal Investigator
Dr Ester Bachar-Wikström	Ass Prof Olov Andersson, Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology.
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 Daniel Svensson	Assoc Prof Hjalmar Brismar and Prof Anita Aperia, Paediatric cell and molecular biology, Dept of Women’s and Children’s Health
Dr Soile Tuomela	Prof Malin Flodström Tullberg, Dept of Medicine Huddinge
Dr Montserrat Visa	Prof Per-Olof Berggren, Signal Transduction, Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery

Programme Steering Committee

Contact

NovoNordiskFellowship@mmk.ki.se

Programme Manager

Håkan Karlsson