The European Islet Study Group is a conference for Islet biology in diabetes research. Organised yearly since 1991, EISG gathers the leading european and international islet researchers in the field of diabetes.

The EISG conference is hosted by the Lund University Diabetes Centre, and will take place in Malmö in June 11-13, 2025.

The objective of EISG is to facilitate the exchange and development of ideas that might push forward groundbreaking research related to diabetes diagnosis, pathology, and treatment, and the role that islet cells play in the disease.

There will also be a debate on “Are alpha cells and glucagon needed for islet function and glucose homoeostasis?”.

The program includes invited speakers from all over the world. Our confirmed invited speakers (5 Swedish, 23 foreign) come from the United States, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Israel, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Spain.

The topics include:

•Genomic of islet cells
•Metabolism in islet cells
•The islet cell in Type 2 diabetes an treatment strategies
•The islet cell in Type 1 diabetes and treatment strategies
•Modelling human islet cell development
•Signaling and crosstalk in the islet
•Debate: “Are alpha cells and glucagon needed for ilset function and glucose homeostasis?”
•Beta & non-beta cells

Lund University Diabetes Centre is a vibrant research environment at Lund University with the long-term goal of preventing and curing diabetes, as well as improving the treatment of the disease and its complications. treatment of the disease and its complications. At LUDC, over 300 people conduct cutting-edge diabetes research spanning basic, molecular and genomic mechanisms to studies of people’s lifestyles, diets and genetic predisposition of disease, as well as carrying out clinical trials.