Swedish Diabetes Summit
These meetings aim to bring together Swedish researchers within diabetes forming an arena for new interactions and collaborations. Another important feature is to expose the Swedish research community to world-leading research within the area. The two Swedish SFOs in diabetes, SRP Diabetes and EXODIAB, have the responsibility to ensure a continuity of these meetings.
5th Swedish Diabetes Summit May 21-23, 2025
This three-day lunch-to-lunch meeting up north in Umeå will include a showcase of diabetes research in Sweden and is co-organized by the two Swedish strategic research areas within diabetes – SRP Diabetes (Strategic Research Program in Diabetes) and EXODIAB (Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden) - with involvement from most Swedish universities. It will bring together leading Swedish researchers and practitioners in diabetes to share the latest advancements in research.
Highlights of the Summit:
- National and international speakers – see the poster below for a list of invited confirmed speakers and their topics.
- Opportunities to present your research either in talks or in posters: submit your abstract.
- Unique networking opportunities with experts in the field.
Travel/Hotel grant for Karolinska Institutet researchers:
Be among the first 100 KI researchers to register and receive a travel/hotel grant worth SEK 2,000! Don’t miss out on this opportunity—register now to secure your grant, which will be paid after the conference.
Place: Väven Conference Center, Umeå.
Registration: Early bird reduced registration fee until Dec 31, 2024, last day for registration and abstract submission is Feb 28, 2025. Note: it is possible to register first and submit an abstract later. Programme and registration at this website
Please note: There will be no SRP Diabetes retreat organized in 2025 (will return in 2026), and we encourage all to instead join the 5th Swedish Diabetes Summit! (a "national retreat")
Poster
Recap: 4th Swedish Diabetes Summit 2022
Time: February 10-11, 2022
Place: virtual through zoom (link will be sent upon registration)
Abstracts: since the meeting will be digital the posters will be transformed into 3 min video presentations. Deadline for abstract submission extended to Feb 1!
Registration, program and abstract submission at this website
News article about the 4th summit
Confirmed speakers in the program:
Keynote lectures
Bruce Spiegelman, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Jens Juul Holst, Copenhagen University DK
Human islets in diabetes research
Patrik Rorsman, Sahlgrenska akademien, Göteborg
Maike Sander, University of San Diego, California
Al Powers, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Cardivascular complications in diabetes
John Pernow, Karolinska Institutet
Andreas Edsfeldt, Lund University
How to classify diabetes in precision medicine?
John Nolan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Simon J Griffin, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK
Patricia Zaharia, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, DE
Diabetic kidney disease: novel concepts and therapies
Simon Satchell, University of Bristol, UK
Hiddo Lambers Heerspink, University Medical Center Groningen, NL
Non-pharmacological interventions in diabetes
Mike Lean, University of Glasgow, UK
Julia Otten, Umeå University
Hormone signalling and resistance
Charlotta Olofsson, Göteborg University
Maria Pereira, Uppsala University
Type 1 Diabetes – Innate and adaptive immunity
Malin Flodström Tullberg, Karolinska Institutet
Anna Blom, Lund University
Recap: 3rd Swedish Diabetes Summit in 2018
November 15-16, 2018 I Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Programme
Programme Committee
All Swedish universities with medical faculty took part as well as AstraZeneca, the only pharmaceutical company with substantial research activities in the area in Sweden. Committee members: Anna Krook (chair, Karolinska Institutet), Olga Göransson (Lund University), Magdalena Taube (Gothenburg University), Anita Öst (Linköping University), Johan Jendle (Örebro University), Carina Halleskog (Stockholm University), Ulf Risérus (Uppsala University), Julia Otten (Umeå University) and Daniel Lindén (AstraZeneca).
Organisers
Main organiser: Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet (SRP Diabetes), co-organizers: Strategic Research Area EXODIAB and University of Gothenburg.
Sponsors and support
We were very grateful to the following organisations who supported this meeting!
Platinum Sponsors: Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca
Silver sponsors: Mercodia and Agilent
Supported by: Company of Biologists
Sponsoring as exhibitors:
BioNordika and VitaVerita
Who attended?
This symposium was targeted to Swedish academic and industrial researchers performing both preclinical and/or clinical research within diabetes. Clinically active medical doctors/health care personnel and patient organization representatives could also benefit from the meeting.
We were very pleased with the response for this meeting with more than 320 delegates registered! There are participants from most Swedish Universities, from small and large companies, from the healthcare and from patient organizations. Several companies active in the area are also present with exhibitions. We look forward to two exciting days!
Registration
Participation for academic researchers and researchers from small-sized companies (below 50 employees) was free of charge on a first come first serve basis.
Participants from companies with 50 or more employees: a fee of 2 000 SEK is charged to cover the actual costs for the participant.
Abstracts
We had a great response of submissions and were very pleased with having 75 posters to be presented at the dedicated poster session in the evening of Thursday 15th of November during the buffet dinner.
Two of the abstracts submitted to the poster session were selected for a short oral presentation on Thursday 15th of November, see final programme.
Venue
Aula Medica at Karolinska Institutet, Solna campus.
Adress: Nobels väg 6, Solna