Special events – Luft Diabetes Foundation https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetic Research Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:05:23 +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 Special events – Luft Diabetes Foundation https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se 32 32 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.

]]> The foundation celebrates 20 years with symposium https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/en/the-foundation-celebrates-20-years-with-symposium/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:22:28 +0000 https://luftdiabetesfoundation.se/?p=10489

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 years, a jubilee symposium was arranged with, among others, previous winners of the Rolf Luft Award: Jeffrey Friedman, chairman of the nomination committee for the Rolf Luft Award (Rockefeller University), C Ronald Kahn (Harvard Medical School) and Sir Stephen O´Rahilly (Cambridge University), as well as Nils-Göran Larsson (Karolinska Institute), who is chairman of the Nobel Committee for Medicine/Physiology. During the morning, the above mentioned researchers described their ground-breaking work regarding causes and treatments of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Never before have such successful Nobel-class diabetes researchers participated simultaneously in a diabetes symposium, which impressed many. This led to the Nobel Forum conference room being filled to the brim. During the afternoon, Dame Frances Ashcroft gave an award lecture and researchers from the Karolinska Institute described their research; all primarily aimed at researchers and clinicians.

During the anniversary day, co-founder Kerstin Brismar’s invaluable efforts during the foundation’s twenty-year operation were also recognized, through a diploma presented by the foundation’s chairman Alan Raffensperger.

Further reading

  • See the program for the jubilee symposium here.
  • Read the Abstracts by four prominent lecturers at the symposium here.
  • Read the prize motivation for the Rolf Luft Award 2024 here.
  • Read about the Rolf Luft Award here.
  • See a list of previous winners of the Rolf Luft Award here.
Kerstin Brismar presents the Rolf Luft Award to Dame Frances Ashcroft (Photo: Ulf Sirborn, Bildmakarna)
The audience at the Rolf Luft Foundation's jubilee symposium, at the Nobel Forum.
Dame Frances Ashcroft
Nils-Göran Larsson
Alan Raffensperger
Alan Raffensperger and Kerstin Brismar
Jeffrey Friedmahn
Kerstin Brismar
Sir Stephen O´Rahilly
C Ronald Kahn
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