SRP Diabetes Travel Grants
Are you planning to present your research at either EASD (abstract deadline April 1) or ADA (abstract deadline March 10)? This may be the grant for you!
With this initiative SRP Diabetes supports junior researchers selected to give a presentation at an international conference in the diabetes area.
SRP Diabetes Travel Grants 2025
Registered PhD students and postdoctoral fellows at Karolinska Institutet travelling for physical attending either EASD 2025 or ADA 2025, and who have been accepted to give a presentation at either of these meetings (oral presentation or poster) are eligible to apply for a travel grant.
Travel grant for presenting at EASD 2025 (fixed amount): 10 000 SEK
Travel grant for presenting at ADA 2025 (fixed amount): 15 000 SEK
Application: you apply by filling in the specific application form found below (includes a CV template) and enclose your acceptance letter for a presentation as well as your abstract.
Submission deadline: there is a limited budget for these grants why first come first served applies! Absolute deadline to submit is July 31, 2025.
Travel grant awardees to attend EASD 2025
The recipients of the Travel grants to attend the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), which took place on 15-19 September 2025 in Vienna, Austria, received 10 000 SEK each. Below you can find their names and departments, as well as the title of their oral presentation. Congratulations!
Andris Elksnis (MMK): "Postprandial testosterone levels in type 1 and type 2 diabetes following standardised meals"
Emmy Keysendal (IMM): "Smoking, genetic susceptibility, and the risk of Type 2 Diabetes subtypes"
Joaquín Ortiz de Zevallos (MMK): "Dysregulated inflammatory response to exercise in type 2 diabetes: a role of CXCL12 in hypoxia-induced signalling"
Kirstin MacGregor (MMK): "Associations between exercised-induced DNA methylation changes and metabolomic profiles in skeletal muscle from women with type 2 diabetes and normal glucose tolerance"
Linn Glynn (SÖS): "Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of first myocardial infarction in people with diabetes"
Paola Pinto Hernández (FyFa): "Differential response of extracellular vesicle miRNA to acute exercise in men with type 2 diabetes"
Stelios Karayannides (MMK): "Evaluating SCORE2-diabetes for cardiovascular risk prediction in type 1 diabetes: insights from the Swedish National Diabetes Register"
Yuxia Wei (IMM): "Comparative Cardiovascular Effectiveness of GLP-1 RAs vs. Insulin in Early-Onset Type 2 Diabetes"
Travel Grant Application Form
SRP Diabetes Travel Grants 2024
The following were awarded travel grants:
Afroditi Barouti (PhD student, MMK), awarded 10 000 SEK for a short oral discussion at EASD 2024 "A randomised controlled trial on low, moderate and high carbohydrate diet in adults with type 1 diabetes: 3-month preliminary results from the DANCE study"
Daniel Eriksson Hogling (Postdoc, MedH), awarded 10 000 SEK for an oral presentation at EASD 2024 "“Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in familial hypercholesterolemia and diabetes: a nationwide registry study”
Stelios Karayiannides (Postdoc, MMK), awarded 10 000 SEK for an oral presentation at EASD 2024 "“Prevalence and prognostic significance of diabetes-related complications in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes in Sweden"
Emmy Keysendal (PhD student, IMM), awarded 10 000 SEK for a short oral discussion at EASD 2024 "Smoking, GAD65 autoimmunity and risk of adult-onset diabetes in the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study"
Kirstin MacGregor (Postdoc, MMK), awarded 10 000 SEK for an oral presentation at EASD 2024 "Integrated analysis of the skeletal muscle methylome and transcriptome following exercise in females with type 2 diabetes and normal glucose tolerance
Julia Sánchez Ceinos (Postdoc, MedS), awarded 10 000 SEK for a short oral discussion at EASD 2024 "The lysine methyltransferase SET7 regulates novel molecular pathways in hyperglycaemia-induced endothelial dysfunction