Jan Bolinder
Professor
Department of Medicine
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Biography
Jan Bolinder is a Head of department and Professor of Clinical Diabetes Research at the Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge since 2005.
Research Interest
Diabetes is one of our greatest public health problems, primarily because of the dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes, also known as age-related diabetes which now represents a global threat to human health.. Using microdialysis technology, the research group is investigating how the release of fatty acids is regulated in adipose tissue and muscle, and what significance this has for the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. In clinical studies, novel diabetes therapies and techniques for continuous glucose monitoring are evaluated in different collaborative projects. Incidence of diabetes and diabetic complications are studied in the Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden (DISS).
