HDC

Our research at the Helmholtz Diabetes Center (HDC) aims at understanding the molecular bases underlying all forms of diabetes, its heterogeneity and risk factors, including obesity as well as its complications and comorbidities. We combine world-leading basic research with clinical intervention and cohort studies to develop tomorrow’s diabetes precision medicine.

Our research at the Helmholtz Diabetes Center (HDC) aims at understanding the molecular bases underlying all forms of diabetes, its heterogeneity and risk factors, including obesity as well as its complications and comorbidities. We combine world-leading basic research with clinical intervention- and cohort studies to develop tomorrow’s diabetes precision medicine.

Early detection tests for a world without type 1 diabetes

At Helmholtz Munich, scientists are working to ensure that no child will have to suffer from the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes in the future.

Panoramic teamwork business join hand together concept, Business team standing hands together, Volunteer charity work. People joining for cooperation success business.

Networks

Our partnerships for a world without diabetes

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich are working toward a world without diabetes. They are not doing so alone, but with a network of organizations, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies. Their goal is to use experts’ knowledge to create something new: innovative prevention and treatment of diabetes.

Metabolism and Longevity

Longevity Treatments Do Not Slow Aging

Three approaches with a reputation for slowing aging processes have proven largely ineffective. For their study, researchers developed a new method to measure aging, which accounts for the complexity of aging in organisms.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Herzig

Director & Head of Division Diabetic Complications View profile

Prof. Dr. Heiko Lickert

Institute Director and Group Leader Insulin/IGF signalling in metabolism and growth & Islet Biology View profile

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler

Institute Director, Chair of Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes, Klinikum rechts der Isar and Technical University of Munich, Director of the Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes (GPPAD) View profile

Prof. Dr. Matthias Blüher

HI-MAG Director and Head of Clinical Obesity Research Group View profile

Martin Hrabe de Angelis _ Portrait NEU_freigestellt

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Hrabě De Angelis

Research Director Helmholtz Munich, Full Professor and Chair of Experimental Genetics Technical University Munich, Director of the Institute of Experimental Genetics Helmholtz Munich View profile

Henriette Uhlenhaut Porträt freigestellt

Prof. Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut

Institute Director View profile

Paul Pfluger Portrait Hochformat_freigestellt

Prof. Dr. Paul Pfluger

Head of Research Unit View profile

Profilbild Andreas BIrkenfeld_freigestellt

Prof. Dr. Andreas Birkenfeld

Director View profile

Prof. Dr. Matthias Hebrok

Director View profile

Prof. Carolin Daniel

TDI Department Head View profile

Dr. Siegfried Ussar

Director of Research Unit Adipocytes and Metabolism View profile

Thanks to basic research, groundbreaking innovations against obesity as well as in the field of diabetes prevention and therapy are emerging at Helmholtz Munich.

Visit Campaign

The 11th Helmholtz Diabetes Conference will be hosted by Stephan Herzig, with Maria Rohm and Mauricio Berriel Diaz, all from the Helmholtz Diabetes Center. This year, a special focus will be put on "Wasting Metabolism".

The 8 sessions will cover various focal topics: metabolism and cardiovascular diseases, molecular mechanisms in cachexia, diabetes and insulin resistance, biology of the pancreas, obesity, clinical metabolic research and therapeutics, and endocrinology.

We are excited to invite you to this year's Oktoberfest Symposium, themed "Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity and Type 1 Diabetes Progression."

This special meeting emphasizes open, interactive exchanges and prioritizes discussion. It's a unique opportunity to plan the next steps in our efforts to understand and prevent type 1 diabetes.

Register here

Our News

See all

Loft A, Schmidt SF, Caratti G, Stifel U, Havelund J, Sekar R, Kwon Y, Sulaj A, Chow KK, Alfaro AJ, Schwarzmayr T, Rittig N, Svart M, Tsokanos FF, Maida A, Blutke A, Feuchtinger A, Møller N, Blüher M, Nawroth P, Szendrödi J, Færgeman NJ, Zeigerer A, Tuckermann J, Herzig S.

A macrophage-hepatocyte glucocorticoid receptor axis coordinates fasting ketogenesis.

Karlina R, Flexeder C, Stephanie M, Bhattacharyya M, Schneider E, Altun I, Gschwendtner S, Neumann AU, Nano J, Schloter M, Peters A, Schulz H, Schmidt-Weber CB, Standl M, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Alessandrini F, Ussar S.

Differential effects of lung inflammation on insulin resistance in humans and mice.

Karl FM, Winkler C, Ziegler A-G, Laxy M, Achenbach P

Costs of Public Health Screening of Children for Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes in Bavaria, Germany.

Xu CS, Pang S, Shtengel G, Müller A, Ritter AT, Hoffman HK, Takemura SY, Lu Z, Pasolli HA, Iyer N, Chung J, Bennett D, Weigel AV, Freeman M, van Engelenburg SB, Walther TC, Farese RV Jr, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Mellman I, Solimena M, Hess HF.

An open-access volume electron microscopy atlas of whole cells and tissues.

DZD

diabinfo

Helmholtz Diabetes Center

Our Research Areas

Diabetes and its Risk Factors

Prevention and Personalized Therapies

Regenerative Therapies for Diabetes and its Complications

Our Research Highlights

Early detection tests for a world without type 1 diabetes

Our partnerships for a world without diabetes

Longevity Treatments Do Not Slow Aging

Our Scientists at the Helmholtz Diabetes Center

Prof. Dr. Stephan Herzig

Prof. Dr. Heiko Lickert

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler

Prof. Dr. Timo Müller

Prof. Dr. Michele Solimena

Prof. Dr. Tor Henrik Semb

Prof. Dr. Matthias Blüher

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Hrabě De Angelis

Prof. Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut

Prof. Dr. Paul Pfluger

Prof. Dr. Andreas Birkenfeld

Prof. Dr. Matthias Hebrok

Prof. Carolin Daniel

Dr. Siegfried Ussar

We Fight Diabetes!

11th Helmholtz Diabetes Conference

Oktoberfest symposium

Our Institutes

Institute for Diabetes and Cancer

Institute of Diabetes Research

Institute of Experimental Genetics

Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research

Institute for Diabetes and Obesity

Institute of Pancreatic Islet Research

Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases

Institute of Translational Stem Cell Research

Helmholtz-Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research

Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology

Institute for Diabetes and Organoid Technology

Research Unit Type 1 Diabetes Immunology

Research Unit Adipocytes & Metabolism

Our News

Inceptor Regulates Insulin Homeostasis: A New Approach for Diabetes Therapies

World Diabetes Day on November 14: Focus On Education and Early Detection of Diabetes

Beta Cells: New Insights Into the Structure and Interactions of Primary Cilia

Selected Publications

Research School for Diabetes

Networks and Affiliations

DZD

diabinfo

IHRS for Diabetes

Contact Director of Operations

Dr. Tobias Schafmeier

Contact Coordinator

Dr. Anne Caniard