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Research methods used in diabetes and its complications
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3202-23-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/10/2023
Date and time15.11.2023, at: 09:00 - 17.11.2023, at: 16:00
Regular seats24
Course fee3,720.00 kr.
LecturersLene Ringholm
ECTS credits2.10
Contact personJulie Carstens Søholm    E-mail address: frm535@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member universities. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. Obtain knowledge and insight in a wide spectrum of research methodology covering clinical aspects of type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, MODY and gestational diabetes.
2. Obtain knowledge and insight in pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications in the present and future generations.
3. Present their own research briefly and obtain contacts and networking with top researchers from a wide spectrum of leading international diabetes research centers


Content
Frontline clinical diabetes research will be covered by international top researchers with focus on the following methods used in clinical diabetes research: Evaluation of insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, immunology, genetic, epigenetic, epidemiology, inflammation and the role of incretins, SGLT 2 antagonists, glucagon and other treatment modalities. Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, MODY and diabetes technology will be covered. Research methods evaluating the impact on the next generation and the different diabetic complications as hypoglycaemia, retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and macrovascular disease will also be dealt with.


Participants
PhD students as well as medical doctors with special interest in this field. There is a maximum of 24 participants.


Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
- Basic Metabolic Research
- All graduate programmes


Language
English


Form
Lectures and discussions.


Course director
Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Lene Ringholm, MD, PhD
Mads Hornum, Professor, MD, PhD


Teachers (subject to change)
Arne Astrup, Professor, MD, DMSc
Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Caroline Kistorp, Professor, MD, PhD
Dorte Vistisen, Associate Professor, PhD
Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Flemming Pociot, Professor
Kirsten Nørgaard, Professor, Chief Physician, DMSc
Lene Ringholm, MD, PhD
Mads Hornum, Professor, MD, PhD
Magnus Thorsten Jensen, MD, DMSc, PhD, MSc
Michael Larsen, MD, DMSc
Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen, Associate Professor
Niels Ejskjær, Professor, MD, PhD
Niels Jessen, Professor, PhD
Steen Madsbad, Professor, MD, DMSc
Thomas Mandrup Poulsen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Tina Vilsbøll, Professor, MD, DMSc
Torben Hansen, Professor, PhD
Ulrik Pedersen-Bjerregaard, Professor, MD, DMSc


Dates
Wednesday – November 15th, 2023
Thursday – November 16th, 2023
Friday – November 17th, 2023 – all days 09.00 - 16.00


Course location
The Auditorium, Department of Nephrology 2132, Rigshospitalet
Entrance 2, 13th floor, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø


Registration
Please register before October 1st 2023


Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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