Sara E. Stinson (Norway), Winner of the Award in Childhood Obesity, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Section for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. Her postdoctoral research is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation through a DD2 Research Grant, where she serves as Principal Investigator of DIAGMENT – a project integrating multi-omics data with national health registries to improve prediction of age at onset of type 2 diabetes and risk of cardiovascular complications.
Sara completed her PhD at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, as part of the competitive Copenhagen Bioscience PhD Programme. Her doctoral research investigated proglucagon-derived hormones and plasma proteomic biomarkers associated with pediatric obesity, advancing mechanistic understanding of early cardiometabolic risk and response to non-pharmacological interventions.
She received her MSc in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
With a multidisciplinary and international background, her research combines large-scale genetics, proteomics, and metabolomics with longitudinal clinical data in Nordic cohorts to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying childhood obesity to refine disease stratification approaches, enabling earlier precision-based prevention strategies.
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