Eight new projects receive funding from UDC
The Uppsala Diabetes Centre board has now decided which eight doctoral projects will be granted funding 2022. We congratulate Johan Bröjer, Tatjana Pavlenko, Katie Winkle, Jonas Lindh, Hannah L Brooke, Anders Tengholm, Jonathan Cedernaes and Joel Kullberg.
The recipients of 2022 research grant have been established and can be seen below. Uppsala Diabetes Centre grants will give financial support to one project at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, one project within the Uppsala University disciplinary domain Humanities and Social Sciences, two projects within the disciplinary domain Science and Technology and four projects within the disciplinary domain Medicine and Pharmacy.
Main applicant: Johan Bröjer
Title:A novel therapeutic option for treating horses with insulin dysregulation and preventing laminitis
Department: Department of Clinical Sciences; Equine Medicine Unit, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Main applicant: Tatjana Pavlenko
Title:Large-scale statistical machine learning for the type 1 diabetes management
Department: Department of statistics, Uppsala University
Main applicant: Katie Winkle
Title:Co-designing a social robot facilitator to boost community engagement with type-2 diabetes
Department: Department of Information Technology , Uppsala University
Main applicant: Jonas Lindh
Title:3 D printed oral dosage forms utilizing microneedle injections of GLP-1 analogues and insulin for efficient treatment of diabetes
Department: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University
Main applicant: Hannah L Brooke
Title:Combining epidemiology with artificial intelligence to examine socioeconomic positions and risk factors trajectories in relation to complications of type 2 diabetes
Department: Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University
Main applicant: Anders Tengholm
Title:Image-scanning microscopy for fast super-resolution imaging of islet cell signaling and secretion
Department: Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University
Main applicant: Jonathan Cedernaes
Title:Timing of physical exercise to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes in humans: The mechanisticrole of circadian rythms in metabolic tissues
Department: Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University
Main applicant: Joel Kullberg
Title:Large-scale imaging studies of associations and causality of body composition in relation to type 2 diabetes
Department: Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University