2025

Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez: University of Grenada - Spain
Longitudinal assciations between Fitness in preschoolers and Glucose metabolism, and Arterial stiffness in adolescence

Martin Schön: German Diabetes Centre - Germany
Role of altered lipid metabolism in ß-cell dysfunction in severe insulin-deficient diabetes

Sindre Lee-Ødegård: University of Oslo - Norway
Optimizing exercise interventions to improve insulin sensitivity in South Asians: targeting unique metabolic pathways

Jens Lund: University of Copenhagen - Denmark
Unravelling the role of cold-induced dipeptides in adipose thermogenesis and glycemic control

2024

Georgia Colleluori: Marche Polytechnic University - Ancona, Italy
Unravelling the role of the endogenous ciliary neurotrophic factor in the regulation of glucose homeostasis

Cintia Folgueira-Cobos: Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III (CNIC) - Madrid, Spain
Unravelling the central role of p38α and its implications in metabolic disorders

Sini Marjut Heinonen: Helsinki University Hospital - Finland
Novel targets to activate adipose tissue metabolism for the treatment of obesity

Borja Martinez-Tellez: Torrecardenas University Hospital - Almeria, Spain
Revelling a new brown fat depot in young women with type 2 diabetes

2023

Luca D'Onofrio: “Sapienza” University of Rome - Italy
Langerhans cells evaluated with corneal confocal microscopy and inflammation in autoimmune diabetes

Alessandro Mengozzi: University of Zuerich - Switzerland
Long non-coding RNAs as direct modulators of beta cell function: a translational study

Theresia Sarabhai: German Diabetes Center - Duesseldorf, Germany
Identifying early pathogenesis of overnutrion-mediated adipose tissue insulin resistance in healthy humans

Larke Smidt Gasbjerg: University of Copenhagen - Denmark
Imaging of gastrointestinal absorption, glucose distribution and metabolism using Total Body PET

2022

Diego Balboa: Centre for Genomic Regulation - Barcelona, Spain
Regulatory landscape controlling human beta cell functional maturation

John Dennis: University of Exeter - UK
Individual-level cardiovascular and heart failure risk stratification to inform precision SGLT2-inhibitor treatment

Matthew Johnson: University of Exeter - UK
Identifying novel genetic causes of diabetes to give insights into mechanisms of beta cell autoimmunity

Salwan Maqdasy: Karolinska Institute - Huddinge, Sweden
Perturbed glutamine turnover drives adipocyte dysfunction and insulin resistance in obesity

2021

Roksana Pirzgalska: Champalimaud Foundation - Lisbon, Portugal
A neuroepithelial circuit responsible for intestinal metabolism

Ilke Sen: Karolinska Institute - Stockholm, Sweden
Role of miRNAs in the regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism, growth and insulin sensitivity

Ben Stocks: University of Copenhagen - Denmark
Ubiquitin-proteasome dysfunction in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes

Oana Patricia Zaharia: German Diabetes Center -  Düsseldorf, Germany
Refining novel diabetes classifications by using markers of adipogenesis and adipose tissue distribution

2020

Beatriz Merino Antolin: University of Valladolid - Spain
Discovering new targets in endocrine pancreas development: implications of insulin-degrading enzyme

Lucile Dollet: Karolinska Institutet - Solna, Sweden
Time-targeted exercise to fight type 2 diabetes: investigating the role of adipose tissue

Pierre Larraufie: AgroParisTech - Paris, France
Energy metabolism of enteroendocrine cells

Alexandra Smink: University Medical Center Groningen - Netherlands
Mimicking the pancreas microenvironment and prevent rejection within islet transplantation device