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Winner of Kerstin Brismar Award 2025

Kerstin Brismar Award
I feel very honored to receive this first prize in Kerstin Brismar’s name and hope that it will contribute to us defeating Type 1 diabetes!”, says Johnny Ludvigsson. Professor Johnny Ludvigsson, senior researcher at Linköping University and founder of the…
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The foundation celebrates 20 years with symposium

Special events
The foundation celebrates its 20 years’ anniversary. From left: Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, Jeffrey Friedman, C Ronald Kahn, Ritva Luft, Dame Frances Ashcroft, Alan Raffensperger, Kerstin Brismar, and Nils-Göran Larsson. To highlight and celebrate the foundation’s work over the last 20…
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Frances Ashcroft received Rolf Luft Award 2023

Rolf Luft Award
Dame Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford, was appointed recipient of the Rolf Luft Award 2024. The award ceremony took place in connection with the Jubilee Symposium on September 5th 2024. Dame Frances Ashcroft received the diploma from the Karolinska Institute’s…
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New chairman appointed

The board
In May 2024, the board of the foundation appointed Alan Raffensperger as the new chairman of Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes Research. It is an honor for me to be appointed chairman of the prestigious Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes…
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