Leif Groop

Biography

Leif Groop has been Professor of Endocrinology at Lund University since 1993 and director of Lund University Diabetes Center. He graduated from the University of  Bern, Switzerland, and a doctorate of doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Following a postdoctoral period at Yale University

Research Interest

He devoted his research to the dissection of heterogeneity of diabetes, but also to investigating the pathogenic events that lead to type 2 diabetes. As an important tool for achieving this goal, he began the  Botnia Study on the west coast of Finland, one of the world's largest family studies on type 2 diabetes. The research group has been involved in many of the genetic discoveries of type 2 diabetes in the last 15 years.