Kerstin Brismar Award – Luft Diabetes Foundation https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetic Research Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:02:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Favicon_Rolf-Lufts-Stiftelse_for_Diabetesforskning-150x150.png Kerstin Brismar Award – Luft Diabetes Foundation https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se 32 32 Winner of Kerstin Brismar Award 2025 https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/en/winner-of-kerstin-brismar-award-2025/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:02:06 +0000 https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/?p=11270

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 Children’s Diabetes Foundation, is the first to be awarded the Kerstin Brismar Award. Ludvigsson receives the award in recognition of his scientific excellence and his unwavering commitment to improving the lives of children affected by type 1 diabetes.

– “I feel very honored to receive this first award in Kerstin Brismar’s name, and I hope that it will contribute to our defeating Type 1 diabetes!”, says Johnny Ludvigsson.

The Kerstin Brismar Award was launched in January 2025 and will be awarded annually to researchers in translational research, i.e. the transfer of research results from basic research to patient-centered research.

At an award ceremony on November 6, Johnny Ludvigsson will receive the award and also give an award lecture under the heading: “How can we preserve the insulin-producing cells”?

At the ceremony, Professor Per-Ola Carlsson from Uppsala University, Academic University Hospital, will also speak about his groundbreaking research “Transplantation of insulin-producing cells without immunosuppressive drugs”.

Read more about the “Kerstin Brismar Award” on the foundation’s website here.

Motivation of the Prize Committee

”Johnny Ludvigsson is a globally recognized researcher whose lifelong dedication to pediatric diabetes has profoundly shaped the field. His work has primarily focused on type 1 diabetes, with a strong emphasis on understanding its early development and preventing the disease. Through a translational research approach, he has successfully bridged laboratory discoveries and clinical application, building his program on experimental and epidemiological studies as well as clinical observations. As principal investigator for several clinical trials and author of around 700 scientific papers, he has made an exceptional contribution to the global knowledge on type 1 diabetes. His current project, “Efforts to preserve insulin producing cells,” aims to save beta cell function before diagnosis to delay or prevent disease onset, and to intervene after diagnosis to improve treatment outcomes and reduce complications. These studies build on decades of research, supported by extensive registries and biobanks that continue to enable international collaboration. Johnny Ludvigsson receives the KB award in recognition of his scientific excellence and unwavering commitment to improving the lives of children affected by type 1 diabetes through translational studies.”

]]> Launch of the Kerstin Brismar Award https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/en/launch-of-the-kerstin-brismar-award/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:43:56 +0000 https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/?p=10866

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.

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