Laura Elo a group leader at Turku Bioscience is awarded the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research 2026. She is professor of computational medicine and has developed statistical and machine learning methods and powerful computational tools to interpret large-scale omics and other digital health data to advance understanding of prediction and progression of type 1 diabetes at molecular level. The knowledge can lead to improved stratification, risk assessment, monitoring and prevention of type 1 diabetes.

The Leif C. Groop Award is awarded annually by the Swedish Lund University Diabetes Centre to a young investigator who is active in any of the Nordic countries.

“I feel very honored and humbled to receive this award. It’s an important recognition for me and my research group. We hope that our studies of how type 1 diabetes develops in different individuals will help prevent type 1 diabetes, delay the progression rate, and contribute to personalised treatments for those who develop the disease,” says Laura Elo.

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