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World Diabetes Awareness: Blue Ribbon, Sugar Cubes, and Globe on Blue Background.

Diabetes, IDF,

Experts Recommend Systematic Screening of Children for Type 1 Diabetes

An international team of experts has issued specific recommendations for population-wide screening of children for type 1 diabetes. The consensus paper, published in the journal Diabetologia, sets out when children should be tested and how a…

Gruppenbild im Treppenhaus des Roten Hausesv. l. n. r.: Michael Stumvoll, Michael Frieser, Cristina Petersen, Bilal Sheikh, Matthias Blüher, Babett Gläser, Antje Körner, Ulrike Poller, Sarah Frenzel, Theda Wessel, Gefion Liebau, Angela Dargel, Konstanze Julich-Gruner

Diabetes, HI-MAG,

How Clinical Research at HI-MAG Is Shaping the Future of Obesity Prevention

How can research help prevent obesity before disease develops? This question was a key focus during the visit by representatives from the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK) to…

Closeup timelapse of layered muscle fibers diminishing over time illustrating severe muscle atrophy in cancer cachexia.

New Research Findings, Diabetes, IDC,

Cancer Cachexia: How a Tumor Protein Drives Wasting in the Body

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University, the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have identified a previously unknown mechanism that can drive…

Professor Timo Müller

Diabetes, IDO,

Interview with Timo Müller About New Therapies for Obesity and Diabetes

Modern drugs for obesity and type 2 diabetes are based on a simple insight: metabolic pathways are not controlled by a single signal, but by many acting together. Prof. Timo D. Müller is Director of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO) at…

A daily routine for children with type 1 diabetes: monitoring blood glucose.

New Research Findings, Diabetes, IDF,

From the Lab to the Patient: Four Clinical Trials on Type 1 Diabetes

Research fully realizes its value where it reaches people – when findings translate into new treatment options from which those affected can benefit. How this can be achieved in practice for type 1 diabetes is demonstrated by the Institute of…

Marie Curie Statue

Awards & Grants, Diabetes, IDOT, Stem Cells,

Two MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded to Researchers at Helmholtz Munich

Dr. Robert Frömel and Dr. Hossam Montaser have been awarded Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships. Over a period of two years, the EU funded fellowships will support their independent research projects on gene regulation in brain…