Academy Life congratulates Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir, new professor of register research at the Institute of Medicine. Soffia is a Diabetes Consultant who has contributed to the establishment the Swedish National Diabetes Register, which covers over 750,000 patients. She has been the director of the registry since 2000. It is a world-leading platform for diabetes research and tools for improved diabetes care. Her research has a wide range, from development of questionnaires and collection of reported results from patients to the effect of various treatments, optimization of risk factor control and prediction of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Ten doctoral students are now affiliated with National Diabetes Register. She also plans to collaborate with omics experts to characterize and quantify biological molecules with the goal of contributing to precision medicine in diabetes care.