Welcome to the Hjelt Foundations
"The three Hjelt Foundations, Spina Bifida, Diabetes and Art were created because of very important events that have considerably influenced my life."
Bo Hjelt
News
In June 2025, ODDfest will take place in central Helsinki. The festival brings together art, business, and society through a two-day program focused on creativity and innovation. This year, the Bo and Allan Hjelt Art Foundation is partnering with ODDfest to support a keynote appearance by American professor Arthur C. Brooks.
The Diabetes Foundation: The application period for next year’s research grants is 20 October to 15 December. Research grants are awarded to applicants at the Medical Faculties of Lund University, Sweden and Geneva University, Switzerland. Read more and apply at "Research Grants".
Two expert presentations at Helsinki Book Fair on Aino and Alvar Aalto's Italian connections
The exhibition "More than just oldsters" presents the art that has been donated to the Åbo Akademi University Foundation, as well as its donators.
We have the pleasure to invite two circus educators Lena Kruit and Rieke Hambach from MeerManege in Kiel, Germany to give a Hjelt talk, demonstrating the importance of play for creativity, the benefit of play and how it is linked to Education for Sustainable Development.
Jiangming Sun, Emma Ahlqvist and Sabrina Ruhrmann have each been awarded a project grant of 47,500 euro by the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation.
Allan and Bo Hjelt Art Foundation had the great honour to welcome Mr. Leonardo Ferragamo, Chairman of Nautor Swan, to give an inspirational design talk on Finnish-Italian collaboration in Helsinki in March.
The Diabetes Foundation: The application period for next year’s research grants is 19 October to 15 December. Research grants are awarded to applicants at the Medical Faculties of Lund University, Sweden and Geneva University, Switzerland. Read more/apply
Today, three of our grant holders in the Diabetes foundation for 2022 are presented in an article on the Lund University Diabetes Center website. Read more at the LUDC web site .
Sir John Stuttard: "Pre-War Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with a Finnish connection"
Time: Wed, April 27th 2022 at 5 pm
Venue: Handelsgilletin juhlasali, Kasarminkatu 40, 2. krs., Helsinki
Lecture in English. Due to limited seats available, pre-registration is required to art@hjeltfoundations.org.
Welcome!
Spina Bifida Foundation
Having lost a child due to Spina Bifida, a most traumatic experience that no family should have to go through, the Bo Hjelt Foundation for Spina Bifida in memory of Madeleine Hjelt was set up to aid research into its’ prevention.
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Diabetes Foundation
The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Foundation for research into Diabetes II was set up because, being a diabetic himself, he wanted to contribute to research in this field as it is increasing rapidly worldwide.
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Art Foundation
The Allan and Bo Hjelt Art Foundation was created in honour of Bo Hjelt's parents. He wanted to return to Finland some pieces of art that his Finnish-born father had collected; and to create the Falsterbonaset Open Air Museum in memory of his mother’s happy times in Falsterbo (five bronze statues by the Swedish sculptor Gudmar Olovson).
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Diabetes Foundation: Our Recent Research Projects
Isabella Artner, Hjelt Grant Holder 2025, Lund University. Transcriptional regulation of human islet development and function
Sevda Gheibi, Hjelt Grant Holder 2025, Lund University. ACSL1 and β-Cell Function: A Novel Pathway in the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes
Therapeutic potential of S100A10 Inhibition in Hepatic Insulin Resistance, MASLD and Type 2 Diabetes
Etienne Delangre, Hjelt Grant Holder 2024, University of Geneva. Therapeutic potential of S100A10 Inhibition in Hepatic Insulin Resistance, MASLD and Type 2 Diabetes
Rashmi B. Prasad , Hjelt Grant Holder 2024, Lund University. Towards Personalized Medicine: Unraveling Biomarkers in Gestational Diabetes for Predicting Diabetes Subtypes and Prevention