Brighter AB (publ) announced at the AGM held on June 8, 2022 that the company approved to elect Johnny Ludvigsson as board member. During the years 1985-1991, Johnny Ludvigsson was Secretary General of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, the world organization for childhood and adolescent diabetes. He has received, among other things, the Novo Nordisk Foundation's award for diabetes research in 1998 and the Inaugural ISPAD Prize in 2001 and has been appointed to Honorary Member of EASD, Honorary Member of ISPAD, and an honorary member of the Swedish Diabetology Association.

He was named Diabetologist of the Year in 2009, and in 2014 was awarded the Knud Lundbæck Award by the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes. To date, Johnny Ludvigsson has published more than 500 articles, and every year the Child Diabetes Foundation awards two prizes in Johnny Ludvigsson's name to prominent child diabetes researchers in the Nordic countries and in Sweden.