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STARDUST IMPACT
Stardust Stories
Conversations from the world of science
Stardust Stories is a public event series that invites audiences to follow scientific ideas from their origin to their impact on people's lives. Each conversation follows a single arc: where a question began, what it took to pursue it, what stands in the way, and what change it aims to bring for the people it's meant to serve.
For the audience, Stardust Stories offers a rare view into a deeply human pursuit — the people behind the science, the thinking behind discovery, and the commitment it takes to do this work.
At its core, Stardust Stories is about creating stronger relationships between scientific knowledge, people, and society.
Launching the initiative
Our first guest was Nicolas Pillon — Docent and team leader of Inflammation and Metabolism at Karolinska Institutet. The conversation centred on an unexpected dialogue: between the immune system and skeletal muscle — a relationship that sits at the heart of how we understand, and might one day prevent, diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes.
We wanted to know how science actually moves — how an idea becomes a hypothesis, how it survives contact with reality, and how entire fields end up leaning on each other to get anywhere at all. Nicolas brought it to life with experiences straight from the lab — the breakthroughs, and the years of dedication it takes to build knowledge that holds.
But science is only half the story. We sat down to meet the human behind it: why he became a scientist, why diabetes, and what it is that keeps him going.
The result was a conversation that captured both the rigour of the science and the humanity behind it.
Event publication:
thepark.se/stardust-stories-initiative-has-launched/
