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Ulf Smith

Senior Researcher

Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine
Telephone
+46 31-342 11 04
+46 706-55 35 18
Mail
ulf.smith@medic.gu.se
Visiting address
Vita stråket 12, uppgång L, vån 6
41345 Göteborg
Postal address
Lundberglab för Diabetesforskning SU Sahlgrenska
41345 Göteborg

About Ulf Smith

Professor, Principal Investigator, MD, PhD, FRCP

Ulf Smith is Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Lundberg Laboratory for Diabetes Research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University 91̽, Sweden. He has held many administrative positions including Chair of the Institute of Medicine, Chief-of-Medicine and Executive Medical Director of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. He has been member of the Scientific Board of the Sahlgrenska Academy and Dean of Research of the Academy.

Professor Smith is a diabetologist and his research is focused on the pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes and its complications. He has published around 500 scientific papers in the field and received many honors for his work including being a Fogarty Scholar at the NIH, Bethesda, USA.

Professor Smith is Past President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and Chair of the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes. He is also Past President of the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe. He is chairman/member of several Scientific Advisory Boards. He has currently a position as member of the European Commission Scientific Panel for Health at the European Commission.

For information of group members and their work, please visit the website for the Lundberg Laboratory for Diabetes Research.

Main research

For information of group members and their work, please visit the website for the Lundberg Laboratory for Diabetes Research.

Group members

For information of group members and their work, please visit the website for the Lundberg Laboratory for Diabetes Research. Group members

Key Publications

  • Grünberg JR, Hoffmann JM, Hedjazifar S, Nerstedt A, Jenndahl L, Elvin J, Castellot J, Wei L, Movérare-Skrtic S, Ohlsson C, Mannerås Holm L, Bäckhed F, Syed I, Bosch F, Saghatelian A, Kahn BB, Hammarstedt A and Smith U. Sci Rep. DOI: 10.1038/srep43515, (2017)
  • Lee S, Zhang C, Kilicarslan M, Piening BD, Bjornson E, Hallström BM, Groen AK, Ferrannini E, Laakso M, Snyder M, Blüher M, Uhlen M, Nielsen J, Smith U, Serlie M, Borén J and Mardinoglu A. Cell Metab. 24:172-184. (2016)
  • Smith U. J Clin Invest. 125(5):1790-1792. (2015)
  • Gustafson B, Hammarstedt A, Hedjazifar S, Hoffman JM, Svensson P-A, Grimsby J, Rondinone C and Smith U. 64:1670-1681. (2015)
  • Yore MM, Syed IS, Moraes-Vieira PM, Zhang T, Herman MA, Homan E.A, Patel R.T, Lee J, Chen S, Peroni O.D, Dhaneshwar AS, Hammarstedt A, Smith U, McGraw TE, Saghatelian A and Kahn BB. Cell. 159(2):318-332. (2014)
  • Hammarstedt A, Hedjazifar S, Jenndahl L, Gogg S, Grünberg J, Gustafson B, Klimcakova E, Stich V, Langin D, Laakso M and Smith U. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110:2563-2568. (2013)
  • Isakson P, Hammarstedt A, Gustafson B and Smith U. Diabetes. 58:1550-1557. (2009)
  • Eliasson B, Taskinen M-R and Smith U. Circulation. 94:878-881. (1996)
  • Graham TE, Yang Q, Bluher M, Hammarstedt A, Ciaraldi TP, Henry RR, Wason CJ, Oberbach A, Jansson P-A, Smith U and Kahn BB. N Engl J Med. 354:2552-2563. (2006)
  • Rondinone CM, Wang L-M, Lönnroth P, Wesslau C, Pierce JH and Smith U. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 94:4171-4175. (1997)