SRP Diabetes International Seminar Series
This seminar series with international speakers in the field of diabetes and metabolism has the aim to increase the interactions of the research community at Karolinska Institutet with renowned and interesting scientists from other institutions. The seminars are sponsored by the SRP Diabetes programme and hosted by different research groups. All are welcome to propose a speaker they would like to host.
To host a speaker
Send a request to SRP-diabetes@ki.se which should include the following a) Presentation of the speaker incl CV, publications and website b) Letter of Motivation, ie why you think the speaker would be interesting not only to yourself but to a broader audience. c) Short presentation of yourself and your research
If the management group approves of your request SRP Diabetes will sponsor the travel in economy class (flights, train), hotel for up to 3 nights, the seminar hall and the following mingle with refreshments.
Earlier seminars
2024
Manuel Tena-Sempere, University of Córdoba, Spain
Abigail Mackey, Institute of Sports Medicine, University of Copenhagen
Jorge Ruas, The University of Michigan Medical School and Karolinska Institutet
2023
David S. Ludwig, Pediatrics-Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2022
Mark O. Huising, University of California, Davis
2021
Minisymposium
Matthias Blüher, University of Liepzig
Christian Wolfrum, ETH Zürich
webinars
Andrea Dunaif, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York and Sanjiv Risal, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet.
Karine Clement, Sorbonne University, France, gave the Jacobaeus prize lecture (prize awarded by Novo Nordisk Fonden),
Marc Donath, University of Basel, and Eckardt Treuter, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet.
Chantal Mathieu, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Sofia Carlsson, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.
Matthias Blüher, University Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Germany.
Jean E. Schaffer, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, and Anna Norhammar, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet
Jorge Ferrer, Imperial College London and Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona/CIBERDEM, and Andreas Hörnblad, Umeå University
2020
Patrick Seale; Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism; University of Pennsylvania
webinar
Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
2019
Midhat Abdulreda, Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
Zachary Knight, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Fransisco, USA
Barry Freedman, Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Ulf Riserus, Uppsala University, Sweden
2018
Rhonda Bassel-Duby, University of Texas Southwestern, USA
Jan Frystyk, Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark
Christoph Handschin, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Guy Rutter, Imperial College, London, UK
Antonio Vidal-Puig, Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge, UK
2017
Kelle Moley, Washington University, USA
Bruce Spiegelman, Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Mark Atkinson, Diabetes Institute, The University of Florida, USA
2016
Roland Stocker, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Akilesh Reddy, University of Cambridge, UK
2015
Eckhardt Lammert, Institut of Metabolic Physiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany
2013
Philippe Froguel, Imperial College London/Pasteur Institute Lille, France
Barbara Corkey, Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Barry Freedman, Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Stephen Shears, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
2012
Evan Rosen, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, USA
Yuval Dor, The Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School, Israel
Heiko Lickert, Institute for Stem Cell Research/ Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany
Piero Carninci, Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
Alejandro Caicedo, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA
2011
Richard Johnson, University of Colorado, Denver
Juergen Eckel, Paul-Langerhans-Group German Diabetes Center