Helena Edlund is a Swedish professor and molecular biologist. She is a professor in Molecular Developmental Biology at Umeå University where she researches Type 2 diabetes and β-cell function. She is one of the founders, along with Thomas Edlund and Olof Karlsson, of the biopharmaceutical company Betagenon. Edlund was the recipient of the Minkowski Prize given by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and won the Eppendorf Prize. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Life. Edlund received her Ph.D. from Umeå University in 1991.
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