On 30 January this year, a new award, the Kerstin Brismar Award, was launched by Rolf Luft’s Foundation for Diabetes Research. Starting in 2025, the prize will be awarded to particularly significant research projects in translational research in the field of diabetes. “Translational research” means that basic research results are translated into clinical research so that new knowledge and discoveries benefit patients more quickly. This will have a positive impact for the diabetes care, in terms of improved preventive measures and more effective treatment of diabetes and its sequelae. The prize includes a research grant of SEK 500,000 and a diploma.
The initiators of the Kerstin Brismar Award are Marika Treschow and Eva Josephson, two private individuals who are passionate about improving care for people with diabetes and who recently donated a large sum of money to the foundation.
The launch of the Kerstin Brismar Award took place at Hotel Villa Dagmar in Stockholm. Guests at the installation included donors/contributors to the award, the foundation’s board members, and people with diabetes in the family interested in ongoing diabetes research and the foundation’s activities.
The launch consisted of opening and closing speeches by the initiators Marika Treschow and Eva Josephson, as well as interesting lectures by three prominent diabetes researchers:
- Kerstin Brismar, senior professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, physician and specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes, as well as basic researcher and clinical researcher with a focus on diagnostics of the risk of type 2 diabetes, its prevention and how to prevent severe complications.
- Malin Flodström Tullberg, professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, bbasic researcher with a focus on diabetes type 1, prevention and early diagnosis.
- Sergiu Catrina, associate professor and university lecturer in Endocrinology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; senior physician, basic researcher and clinical researcher with a focus on how late sequelae can be prevented and treated in diabetes.
For more information on the Kerstin Brismar Award, see this page.
The press release for the newly launched Kerstin Brismar Award can be read here (in Swedish).
See photos from the lauch of the Kerstin Brismar Award, below.
