About SSSD
News:
​The SSSD 2027 Annual meeting
will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland May 27-28!
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​More details and program will follow. The chair of the local organizing committee is Guðrún Þuríður Höskuldsdóttir <gudrunh@reykjalundur.is>
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​Awards at the SSSD 2026 Annual meeting in Gävle, Sweden:
The Knut Lundbæk award: Anna Krook, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Young Investigator award: Mikkel Thor Olsen, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark.
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The Novo Nordisk Foundation Nordic Diabetes Prize 2026 was awarded Charlotte Ling, Lund University, Sweden
and the Barndiabetesfonden’s Johnny Ludvigsson Prize were awarded
Riitta Lahesmaa, University of Turku and Gustaf Christoffersson, University of Uppsala.
For bios on the recipients see: Awards for SSSD 2026 | SSSD Annual Meeting
Outstanding presentation awards 2026:
Leonie Reible, and Mandal Kousik, both from the Department of Medical Cell Biology, University of Uppsala.
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About SSSD
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The Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes (SSSD) was established in the 1960s. The aim of the SSSD is to bring together people with an interest in diabetes research, both from Nordic countries and elsewhere. We hold annual meetings aiming to strengthen collaborative relationships that will lead to advancement in diabetes research. The international board of the SSSD presently consists of Elisabeth Qvigstad (chair) and Kåre Birkeland for Norway, Riitta Veijola and Lena Thorn for Finland, Nils Wierup and Gustaf Christoffersson for Sweden, Esben Søndergaard and Signe Schmidt for Denmark and Gudrun Höskuldsdóttir and Sigridur Björnsdóttir from Iceland. We strongly encourage everyone residing in - and also outside - the Nordic countries who is interested in diabetes research to participate in the yearly meetings.
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Do you want to receive email notifications about SSSD events?
Please notify Elisabeth Qvigstad at elisabeth.qvigstad@medisin.uio.no to be included in the SSSD email list.
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