Professor Juleen Zierath receives prestigious award for diabetes research
Professor Juleen Zierath is this year's recipient of the prestigious Diabetes Prize for Excellence, awarded by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) research network and the research foundation Novo Nordisk Foundation. Juleen Zierath receives the prize for her groundbreaking research on physical activity and diabetes.
Through the Diabetes Prize for Excellence, EASD and the Novo Nordisk Foundation wish to recognise exceptional achievements in diabetes research that have led to significant advances in the understanding, prevention or treatment of the disease or its complications.
Juleen Zierath receives the prize for her groundbreaking research on physical activity and diabetes. The prize money is DKK 6 million (approximately SEK 9.15 million).
“I am humbled and honoured to receive the prize. I am also grateful for the substantial funding that will help my teams approach new challenges and attempt more high-risk, high-reward research,” says Juleen R. Zierath, professor and research group leader at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, in a press release.