SRP Diabetes Fellowship Grants

Principal investigators at Karolinska Institutet are eligible to submit a project for consideration to the SRP Diabetes Postdoctoral Fellowship Program within basic, translational, clinical, and/or epidemiological research with an emphasis on diabetes and its comorbidities (e.g. cardiovascular and liver disease). Projects should have a clear relevance for diabetic disease and principal investigators should document their track record in diabetes related research. Applications are externally evaluated, see selection committee below.

In the fourth round of fellowship grants a total of six projects were awarded. Of twenty-four received applications in category 1, four were awarded and of eleven received applications in category 2, two were awarded. (Project numbers are ordered after the last name of the main PI).

Category 1: Projects within the areas above.

Project 1. Early-onset type 2 diabetes, nationwide investigation of etiology and prognosis. PI Sofia Carlsson (IMM, KI)

Project 3. How long non-coding RNAs promote metabolic flexibility through controlling adipocyte insulin sensitivity. PI Alastair Kerr (MedH, KI)

Project 5. Spatially resolving the response to anti-hyperglycemic drugs in adipose tissue. Main PI Niklas Mejhert (MedH, KI) and co-PI Patrik Ståhl (Scilifelab)

Project 6. Discovery of Molecular Signal Transducers Conferring Insulin-Induced Adaptations on Glucose Transport in Type 2 Diabetes. PI Juleen Zierath (MMK, KI)

Category 2: Collaborative project of translational nature within the areas above. Projects by two PIs/supervisors where one should be an active clinician and the other a basic scientist with a clear complementary expertise.

Project 2. Differential local and systemic impact of adipose tissue on vascular function in patients with coronary artery disease and type two diabetes. Main PI Carolina Hagberg (MedS, KI) and co-PI Oskar Kövamees (MedS, KI + KUH)

Project 4. Dietary nitrate and physical exercise to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes. Main PI Jon Lundberg (Fyfa, KI) and co-PI Thomas Nyström (KI SÖS)