Danish version

The DDA-Funded Scientist award is presented to a junior DDA-funded researcher who has shown great potential to be a world‐class researcher within his/her field of expertise.

The prize was presented at the Danish Diabetes Academy Annual Day on 12 November 2019.

Prize-winner is the first to study changes in DNA of Aboriginal Australians

Despite being only 34, Danish researcher Line Hjort has achieved such important results that she has been selected to receive this year’s Danish Diabetes Academy Scientist Award. The prize is awarded for ‘excellent, innovative and passionate research’; the recipient must be young and have shown great potential to become a world-class researcher.

Line Hjort is a postdoc at the Centre for Pregnant Women with Diabetes at the Obstetrics Clinic at Rigshospitalet. Among other things, she has discovered that children of Danish mothers with gestational diabetes have 76 places in their DNA where their epigenetics is different to that of children of healthy mothers.

The goal is to enable this knowledge to be used to find these children very early, ideally just after birth, so as to provide the best possible prevention or treatment. The next step is to find out what the epigenetics is like in people other than Danish children, so she is now studying DNA from children and women in Tanzania, the EU and Australia. In fact, she and her Australian colleagues are the first to have been granted permission to study changes in DNA from Aboriginals, the indigenous people of Australia.

The prize will be presented at the Danish Diabetes Academy’s Annual Day on 12 November 2019.

Read more
Read more about Line Hjort and her research in her profile (Danish version)
See the nomination of Line Hjort
See the CV and publication list of Line Hjort

Contact
Line Hjort 
line.hjort@regionh.dk

Tel. 35457148
Tel. 25784108

Managing Director, Danish Diabetes Academy
Tore S. Christiansen
tore.christiansen@rsyd.dk

Tel. 29646764