Professor Torben Hansen will give the 2015 Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture was awarded to Professor Torben Hansen for being a visionary and pioneering researcher in diabetes and obesity.
Torben Hansen is a Group Leader in the Section for Metabolic Genetics of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research. His group is trying to find genetic indicators for diabetes.
"It’s always fantastic with large grants to support your research, but the unique thing about getting an award is that it has been given by esteemed colleagues in your field of research.
These people have looked at your work and thought that this person has made a difference in his scientific field and has influenced the possibility of improving diagnosis and treatment of diabetic patients,” says Torben Hansen.
Professor Torben Hansen will hold the Lecture at the next meeting in the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes.
About the Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture is awarded for an outstanding contribution within research and/or treatment related to diabetes. The Lecture is awarded annually to an active researcher from a Nordic country, who is invited to hold a lecture to coincide with the annual conference of the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes. The scientist is selected to give the Lecture receives an award of DKK 50.000.
A committee comprising three members from the Nordic Research Committee of the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Chair of the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes awards the Lecture. Members of the committee and the Society may nominate Lecture candidates. The Lecture was established in 1979 and was originally known as the Jacob E. Poulsen Grant. Jacob E. Poulsen (1907–1988) was a senior hospital physician affiliated with Niels Steensens Hospital (now the Steno Diabetes Center) for 40 years and a key figure in the history of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.