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“We should all train like athletes”

CBMR’s Executive Director Professor Juleen R. Zierath has strived to demonstrate the profound therapeutic potential of exercise. She now receives the NNF EASD 2024 Diabetes Prize for Excellence for her work.

Diabetes Prize for Excellence

Professor Juleen Zierath awarded prize for trailblazing work on physical activity and diabetes

Professor Juleen R. Zierath has demonstrated the profound therapeutic potential of exercise through 30 years of research. The scientist from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the University of Copenhagen is the…

Professor Juleen Zierath awarded prestigious grant to study how circadian rhythms control type 2 diabetes

The €2.5 million Advanced Grant from the European Research Council will support research into the mechanisms that underpin the relationship between the circadian clock, diet and exercise, and metabolism, and their…

Professor Juleen Zierath is awarded the Erhoff Prize 2023

The Erhoff Family Foundation cite Juleen Zierath’s extraordinary publishing record, strong leadership, and commitment to fundamental biomedical research in their justification for awarding her the award.

“Sometimes you're the very first person in the world to know something – that’s a pretty cool feeling.”

Ben Stocks studies the effect of diabetes and obesity on the proteomes of different organs. Read more about his research career and motivations here.

Scientists dive deep into the different effects of morning and evening exercise

Exercise causes the body to release different signals that improve health and now scientists have mapped these signals and how they are released in mice.

A breakdown in communication – mitochondria of diabetic patients can’t keep time

Muscle cells in patients with type 2 diabetes have a disrupted biological clock. The findings suggest that treatments for type 2 diabetes may be more or less effective depending on the time of day they are given.

Prestigious EASD Claude Bernard award goes to Juleen R. Zierath

Executive Director Juleen Zierath and Postdoc Ben Stocks receive awards from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes

Postdoc opportunities

"There's a huge diversity of research at CBMR"

Postdoc Daniel Cervone explains why early career researchers in metabolism should consider joining CBMR through the International Postdoctoral Program.

UCPH researchers receive prestigious prizes from the American Diabetes Association

Two researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Jens Juul Holst and Juleen R. Zierath, receive prestigious prizes from the American Diabetes Association.

Time-restricted feeding improves health without altering the body’s core clock

New research from the University of Copenhagen finds that time-restricted feeding does not influence the muscle’s core clock

New tool opens up old data and discovers novel links between exercise and health

MetaMEx pools data from 66 studies that examined the impact of exercise on gene behavior in muscles and holds enormous potential.