When: June 11th, 2024 from 12:30-18:00
What: The Novo Nordisk Foundation will host a symposium with the aim of bringing together the research community for an exciting afternoon of knowledge sharing and networking, with the ambition to facilitate research partnerships and lay the seeds for realising creative solutions and new technologies within the 2025 Challenge Programme theme:
2025 Challenge: Ectopic fat & CMD
The challenge is to understand causal factors in the development and consequences of ectopic fat accumulation, identifying novel targets and precision medicine strategies in disease prevention and treatment with a human-centric point of departure. The programme should through basic and applied research have a special focus on disruptive and innovative approaches to tackle the challenge and should include novel state-of-the-art technologies such as large-scale omics and imaging techniques (e.g., CT and MRI) allowing for non-invasive quantification.
We encourage applicants to focus on data representing diversity both in relation to gender, ethnicity, and associated conditions. The programme does not focus on the prevention or treatment of obesity per se, but the understanding of how ectopic fat cause adverse health effects and how this disease risk can best be reduced (with/without weight loss). Hence, the effects of weight loss, diets and physical activity could be studied for mechanistic understanding of disease modification.
Supported research may include but is not limited to:
- Identifying and understanding underlying genetic and acquired mechanisms that cause ectopic fat accumulation in various tissues.
- Understanding how ectopic fat causes adverse health effects (local and humoral mediators).
- Understanding the beneficial effects of weight loss, physical activity and specific diets on ectopic fat accumulation and disease (e.g., T2DM & CVD) modification.
- Research aimed at subgrouping based on measures of ectopic fat for precision risk assessment and treatment strategies.
A detailed programme can be found here.
Where: Novo Nordisk Foundation - Tuborg Havnevej 19 - 2900 Hellerup
How: Registration is required, deadline May 1st. Please register here.