The Next Stage in Metabolic Research
On 21 March, leading metabolism researchers met in the Jerne Auditorium for the symposium Metabolism Day. The event shed a light on which research activities the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research will focus on the next few years.
On Thursday, eight international metabolism researchers visited the Jerne Auditorium, where they together with researchers from CBMR and the rest of SUND discussed the latest research in the area and the centre’s future focus areas. The topics covered included regulation of genetic variants and metabolic diseases, dietary underpinnings of mood deficits in obesity and cardiometabolic disease mechanisms.
When Director of Centre and Professor Juleen R. Zierath opened the symposium, she stressed that scientific meetings like this one are central to the centre’s new strategy for international cooperation and important knowledge sharing between researchers in the field.
Metabolism Day Supports New Strategy
The aim of Metabolism Day is to get various researchers in metabolism together to discuss and share scientific insight. At the same time, it is the first large event supporting CBMR’s new strategy containing four main focus areas, which were presented in August 2018 when the centre received DKK 700 million in funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
The strategy is based on four ambitious research programmes, which from various perspectives must produce new fundamental knowledge of metabolism and strengthen cooperation between national and international researchers.
“With Metabolism Day, we have created a forum to foster scientific dialogue and exchange of the latest research into disease mechanism associated with diabetes and obesity. The symposium brought together eight international symposium speakers, 60 poster presentations, and 250 participants from the broader research community to create a vibrant educational event that is anticipated to impact our research direction going forward”, says Juleen R. Zierath.
Since CBMR was established in 2010, the centre has contributed with ground-breaking research results helping us understand how genes, hormones and environmental factors affect our metabolic health and diseases throughout life.
By Kristine Snedker