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​2025: Excited to share our commentary on SERPINA3C and metabolic health in offspring—now out in Nature Metabolism!
2021:
Popular science outreach - the role of inflammation in health and disease. Web link
2019
: Om överviktiga en dag kan börja leva friskare, kan en flygel spela en viktig roll Web Link
2018: ERC Starting Grant till Emma Börgeson Web Link
2017: "Emma Börgeson undersöker inflammationens roll i fetma" Web Link
2016: Recipients of SSMF's award is selected in fierce competition among Sweden's most promising young scientists Web Link
2016: Four Swedish Research Council grants for young scientists Web Link
2015: Researchers boost body’s inflammation Web Link

News Spotlight


2025 May: Attended the ISHR 2025 Meeting in Nara, Japan - an inspiring setting for great science and connections.
2025 May: New paper out on obscurin and SPEG kinase biology—great teamwork with Lange and Fleming labs [Open access here.]
2025 April: Thrilled to welcome a PhD lab rotation student from the Helmholtz Diabetes Center.
2025 March: Honored to host Prof. Anders Rosengren at the Food and Nutrition Network Meeting.
2025 March: Proud to contribute to the organizing committee of this year’s DCA Winter Meeting in Norway.
2025 February: Presented our latest data at The Helmholtz Diabetes Center.
2025 February: Excited to join the EASD Mentorship Program as a mentor.
2025 January: Our review on the mechanisms of inflammation and its resolution in obesity is now published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology—highlighting emerging insights and therapeutic perspectives.
2025 January: Grateful to kick off the year with a Semper Ardens Accelerate Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.
2024 Oct:
Nature Reviews Endocrinology publishes our latest review, "Inflammation and resolution in obesity"
2024 Oct: Meeting talented PhD students at the Cardiometabolic research PhD course this week, hosted by  @DDEA_Denmark & @DCAcademyDK .
2024 Sept: Attending the EASD 2024 meeting together with Bianca, Saeideh, and Madison, who's abstracts were all selected for short talks - well done!
2024 Sept: Welcome to our new PhD student, Lykke Skaarup (MD).
2024 Sept: Madison Clark gives a fantastic half-time defense, congratulations!
2024 Aug: Our latest article is now available in the "Attenuation of adipose tissue inflammation by pro-resolving lipid mediators".
2024 Aug: The team is growing, we welcome Elia Velasco to the team, and exchange student Lea Schäfer from the University of Bielefeld, Germany
2024 July : We published a new review summarizing "The challenges of assessing adiposity in a clinical setting" in Nature Reviews Endocrinology.
2024 June: We welcome med students Sebastian and Erik to their summer internship.
2024 June:
Hosting Dr. Amanda Michelle Peluzzo from Temple University, welcome!
2024 May: Excited to help organize the DDEA Neuroendocrine Control Symposium in Copenhagen
2024 April: Sharing our research at the Personalized Medicine Meeting at AU
2024 March: Delighted to welcome new team-members to the group: Drs. Andras Harazin and Line Boel Nørregaard
2024 March: Great turnout at the "Inflammation Network Day"
2024 Jan: Fantastic event hosted by the DCAcademy Cardiometabolic Network

2023 Dec: Stimulating visit the lab of Mark Nixon's Research Group at The University of Edinburgh
2023 Nov: Excited to speak at the Grant Writing Series Initiative, hosted bythe The Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy
2023 Oct: Honored to be invited to speak at the NAVBO Vascular Biology Meeting, very inspirational talks this week.
2023 Oct: The team does an excellent job at the 4th Annual Cardiovascular Network, one student talk and three posters displayed!
2023 Oct: Excited to host a new Grant Workshop at AU, please sign up!
2023 Sept: Our latest review with Joanna Kalucka is published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology describes the role of the vasculature in adipose tissue biology
 2023 Sept: We had a fantastic site visit from @Hagberglab last week
@StenoAarhusRes, looking forward to many fruitful collaborations
2023 Sept: Exciting updates on
muscle physiology at the 50th #EMC 2023 in Florence.
2023 June: Our new paper with @SLangeLab and @Hagberglab in BMC Medical Education investigating the impact of COVID-19 on the education of graduates students in the United States vs Sweden.
2023 May: Delighted to present our recent work at #SSSD2023
2023 May: Great poster session @StenoAarhusRes research retreat 2023
2023 May: Public outreach #STENOAarhus #researchday with taste kitchens, lectures, music and research presentations.
2023 May: Delighted to attend this years #NMMP meeting together with #SciLifeLab, #DDLS and #WCMM fellows.
2023 May: Welcome Stine Tingskov to your post-doctoral fellowship!
2023 April: Danish and Swedish team joins forces at Sahlgrenska Hospital of onsite training - thank you all!
2023 March: We participate at the Adipose Biology Conference: Metabolic Buffering in an Obesogenic World, with support of @DDEA_Denmark
2023 March: Madison and Saeideh enroll as PhD Students at Århus University - welcome and congratulations!
2023 Jan: Come join our team at Aarhus university and Steno Diabetes Research Center as a post-doc! More information here at Nature Jobs
2023 Jan: We begin our work at Steno Diabetes Research Center and Aarhus University - thank you for the warm welcome!

2022 Dec
: Madison receives a prestigious fellowship to begin her PhD at Aarhus University - congratulations!
2022 Oct: The lab attends the Cardiovascular Network Meeting in Aarhus, Meenu and Matus presents their work.
2022 Oct: At the EMBO meeting in Malaga. Grateful to present our data at the Energy balance in metabolic disorders - EMBO. Fantastic meeting!
2022 Sept: Our latest review with the Hagberg Lab is out: Of mice and men: Pinpointing species differences in adipose tissue biology
2022 Sept: Thankful to attend this years metabolisminaction conference in Copenhagen and present our work.
2022 Sept: Leadership training with the Gothenburg Wallenber Center.
2022 June: Our new paper with @SLangeLab and @Hagberglab in @iScience_CP shows lipoxin treatment may require personalized medicine approach to fight inflammation & cardiometabolic disease Paper can be downloaded here: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci
2022 April: Thank you Elodie and the Zang Lab for this interesting collaboration on immune checkpoints in obesity, published with open access in ScienceAdvances. doi 10.1126/sciadv.abm7012
2022 Feb: Delighted to share our latest research on lipoxin-mediated regulation of neutrophil function in health and disease, published in FASEB J. Great collaboration with the labs of Dalli, Skoog, Quiding-järbrink, Bromberg and Blomgran doi.org/10.1096/fj.202101219RR
2022 Jan: First publication of the year now available online, we investigate ECM regulation in human adipose tissue in collaboration with Hagberg lab at Karolinska: doi.org/10.3390/ijms23

2021 Oct: We welcome Dr Saeideh Tavajoh to our translational research team - she will be working with our ongoing clinical trials.
2021 Sept: Antonio, David and Petter begin their MD degree exchange projects between our lab and UC San Diego. Congratulations!
2021 Sept: We welcome Madison Clark and Lara Abumeghafel to the lab
2021 May: Our new paper published in BMC Medical Education investigating challenges in PhD education at universities in Sweden due to COVID19.
2021 April: Happy to participate in popular science outreach at GU.
2021 March: Our latest review article focuses on the role of SPMs in the lymphatic system and published with open access in IJMS.
2021 Jan: Starting the new year with a publication on the role of SGLT-3.
2021 Jan: Matus defines the concept of "Scifireal" in Science Magazine.

2020 Dec: Excited to share our newest data DVC conference, Karolinska.
2020 Nov:
Presenting at the MC Science Forum in Örebro.
2020 Oct: Interesting meeting on Swedish Cohort Studies, zoom Uppsala.
2020 Sept: Presenting a lightning talk at the Keystone Symposium on Proteomics in Cell Biology and Disease.
2020 May: WCMTM PI meetings continue via zoom
2020 March: Alankrita completes “Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the statistics” 
2020 Feb: Scientific Exchange Workshop 5th February 2020 between AstraZeneca & The Wallenberg Centres in Gothenburg and Lund
2020 Feb: WCMTM visits the Wallenberg Laboratory
​2020 Feb: Tzu Shen joins us from Heidelberg University for a MSc lab rotation .
2020 Jan: Alankrita Rani joins the lab for a research internship.

2019 Dec: Very interesting visit at the Hedin lab at Karolinska.
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2019 Nov: Jamie Kraft receives the Adlerbert scholarship
2019 Nov: Invited to present our recent data at the "Food for thought – how can protein biomarkers advance our understanding of health and disease" seminar
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2019​ Oct: We publish a new paper on the Comparative analysis of obesity-related cardiometabolic and renal biomarkers in human plasma and serum. Full manuscript can be found here. 
​2019 Sept: The team is very excited to start work on our ERC StG project.
2019 Sept: Attending the 42nd European Lipoprotein Club Meeting, Germany.
2019 Sept: JCI publication accepted "miR-486 is modulated by stretch and increases ventricular growth" - a collaborative work with Drs. Lange and Nigam.
​2019 Aug: David Tandio joins the team.
2019 July: Linda Lundblad (PhD, BMA) joins the team.
2019 June: Congratulations to  Madison (Cal Poly Pomona) & Armando (UCSD); this years summer stipend holders, 2019.
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2019 June: Delighted to present at the WCMM Research School in Lund, very impressed by the attendee's commitment to science.
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2019 May: Dr Sofia Ramström visits the lab from Örebro University.
2019 April: Attending the very interesting Keystone Symposia on immunometabolism, metaflammation and metabolic, Vancoover.2019 April: Delighted to attend the VR sponsored ERC reception, Stockholm.
2019 March: Presenting our new data at the Keystone Symposia on Lipidomics and Functional Metabolic Pathways in Disease, Denver.
2019 Jan: The team presents posters at WCMTM yearly event, Gothenburg.
2019 Jan: Visiting collaborators to learn the Aorta Ring Assay, Uppsala University

2018 Dec: Attending ASCB|EMBO Meeting, San Diego.
2018 Nov: Attending an intersting symposium on Biomarkers in Drug Discovery, Uppsala, Sweden. 
2018 Oct: Visiting the lab of Prof. Katariina Öörni at the University of Helsinki.
2018 Sept:
Delivering Keynote at SSMF Award Ceremony, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 Sept: The team attends the Yearly WCMTM Meeting Gothenburg, Sweden.
2018 Sept: Presenting our data at Atheroma Club, Ystad, Sweden.
2018 Sept: Visiting Prof. Jonathan Bromberg's laboratory, Univ. of Maryland.
2018 Aug: I am very grateful to receive a European Research Council  Starting Grant.
2018 July: Ms. Jamie Kraft  from the University of Ottawa joins the lab for a summer internship.
2018 May: Visiting the outstanding bariatric surgery clinic headed by Prof van der Merwe and Dr Fetter at CEMMS Waterfall City Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2018 April: 3 posters and 1 oral presentation at Experimental Biology, USA.
2018 March: Presenting our data at the Translational Research in Cardiology, Sweden.
2018 March: Inauguration of the National Molecular Medicine Fellows Program 
2018 March: Madison recieves the AHA Undergraduate Student Fellowship to join the Lange laboratory for the summer 2018.
2018 Feb: Presenting preliminary data at the WCMTM's yearly symposia in Gothenburg, Sweden.
2018 Jan: Catherine Åhlund, Sylvia Müller and Benuarda Toto joins the lab.

2017 Dec: Inspiring lectures at the 
Linköping University WCMM Symposia: intriguing to listen to Prof Sir Tom Blundell.
2017 Nov: Publishing article in International Journal of Obesity, in collaboration with Prof Olivia Osborn.
2017 Nov: Presenting at the American Society of Nephrology 2017, USA.
2017 Oct: Jennifer receives a diploma from Mary von Sydow Foundation.
2017 Sept: Attending the KAW 100 year Jubilee Symposium in Gothenburg: Metabolism – The Foundation of Life.
2017 Sept: Honored to attend the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative at Astra Zeneca, Sweden.
2017 Sept: Inspiring lecture by Professor Shinya Yamanaka, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2017 August: Participating in the Lipidomics Seminar at West Coast Metabolomics Center at UC Davis.
2017 July: Matus Sotak receives funding from the Sigurd & Elsa Golje's fund.
2017 July:  Summer Students 2017. (Left to right: Victoria Sorhegui, Jennifer Cohn, and Madison Clark)
2017 May: Emelie defends her Bachelor thesis at the University of Gothenburg.
2017 May: Meenu and Matus receives funding from Lundbergs Foundation.
2017 April: Jennifer receives Von Sydows' stipend to join the lab for the summer.
2017 April: Participating in outreach at Sahlgrenska Academy Career Talks.
2017 Mar: Juan visiting UC Davis to work on WCMC Pilot and Feasibility Project. 
2017 Feb: Publishing article in Diabetologia: AICAR ameliorates high-fat diet-associated pathophysiology in mouse and ex vivo models, independent of adiponectin.
2017 Feb: Juan presents his project update for collaborators at Gastlab.
2017 Feb: Presenting data at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine Event, ​Gothenburg.
2017 Feb: Outreach with visiting BSc students from the Netherlands.

2016 Nov: Moderating at American Society of Nephrology, Chicago.
2016 Nov: Presenting data at Northwestern University. 
2016 Oct: Initiating WCMC Pilot and Feasibility Project Grant, together with Profs. John Newman and Oliver Fiehn at UC Davis. 
2016 Oct: Accepting the SSMF establishment award, Stockholm, Sweden.
2016 Oct: Visiting Dr. Jesmond Dalli's laboratory at The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary's College, UK.
2016 Sept: Kindly invited by Dr. Joost Brandsma to presenting our work at Southampton University.  
2016 Sept: 
Participating in Popular Science Day at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 
2016 Aug: Presenting a junior keynote lecture at the Physiology conference in Dublin.
2016 July: Börgeson lab’s summer classes start, welcome students!
2016 July: Congratulations to Madison Clark and Lexi Gauthier, recipients of Börgeson lab’s summer scholarships 2016.
2016 June: We presented data on the role of lipoxins at the European Obesity Summit in Gothenburg.
2016 June: Delighted to receive an UC Davids National Institutes of Health Pilot Grant, with collaborator Prof. Stephan Lange.
2016 May: Grateful to receive the Junior Investigator Award, International Conference on Phospholipase A2 and Lipid Mediators.
2016 May: We presented a poster at the LIPID MAPS Annual Meeting.
2016 April: Presenting our data at the International Seminar Series, University of Gothenburg.
2016 March: Grateful to receive the Junior Investigator Fellowship from the Swedish Research Councils.
2016 March: We received the Establishment Fellowship for Junior Investigators from Swedish Society for Medical Research.
2016 Jan: Celebrating with our collaborators at Gastlab, our clinical study “ADIPOS2” is 1 year old and progressing very well.
​2016 Jan: Grateful to receive the Emerging Leader award in Nutritional Sciences at the Experimental Biology conference, San Diego
Börgeson | Lab
Århus Univesrity & Steno Diabetes Centre, Denmark 
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 804418)
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