Ã…ke Lernmark
management team
Diamyd Medical
Sweden
Biography
Lernmark has focused his research on diabetes and at an early stage identified the antigen that later proved to be GAD. He and his colleagues were the first to clone GAD65 from human islets using biochemical methods, and was thus the first to define antibodies against GAD65 in patients with type 1 diabetes. Professor Lernmark was first to use molecular methods to identify HLA genes that are necessary, but not sufficient to develop the disorder
Research Interest
Lernmark has focused his research on diabetes and at an early stage identified the antigen that later proved to be GAD.
