The DZD NEXT Young Talent Program supports our young scientists within the DZD on their way to scientific independence. Young group leaders can apply with a scientific project every year. The grants are used to finance a postdoc for two years who…

Obese but metabolically healthy people have a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death compared to metabolically unhealthy people with obesity. Unexpectedly, their risk is only slightly higher compared to lean, metabolically…

Congratulations to Kerstin Kansy, a doctoral candidate in human medicine at the IDM in Tübingen, on being selected as the recipient of the DZD NEXT Medical Doctoral Thesis Stipend. As a medical doctoral candidate in human medicine at the IDM in…

Current medical guidelines recommend that people in a preliminary stage of type 2 diabetes lose at least 7 percent of their body weight in order to prevent manifest diabetes. In an article in “Nature Reviews Endocrinology,” diabetes experts Prof.…

Clinical scientists from the IDM in Tübingen raised awareness about the importance of diabetes prevention and the early detection of prediabetes in the city center on June 28, 2024. Numerous people took part in the free education and testing campaign…

We are delighted to congratulate Vitoria Minelli-Faiao, a doctoral student at the IDM in Tübingen, on her selection as a recipient of the German Diabetes Association (DDG) Doctoral Scholarship. Her research will take place under the supervision of…

IDM scientists attended the 84th meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, from June 21-24. The world's largest diabetes meeting brought together more than 11,000 leading…

Congratulations to Leontine Sandforth, Clinician Scientist at the IDM and the Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology at the University Hospital of Tübingen, who has been accepted as a Clinician Scientist in the Medical Innovation…

"Over the last few years, it has been shown that the brain is an insulin-sensitive organ, but also that a whole range of people do not respond to insulin in the brain," says Apl. Professor Dr. rer. nat. Stephanie Kullmann, Deputy Head of the…

In a letter published in Cell Metabolism entitled “Exploratory physiological experiments are not clinical trials”, the authors criticize the current, strict ICMJE guidelines for exploratory physiological studies, which have recently been adopted by…

Professor Stephen O'Rahilly, Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge, will give a lecture on "GDF15: The Sickness Hormone". The talk will take place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 14:00 CEST, in the large lecture hall…

"Many who need it, don't get it. Many who don't need it take it. How does the so-called 'weight loss injection' work? And does it really help against obesity?" - These questions were examined in Eckart Hirschhausen's show, which was broadcast on ARD…

When adjusting and monitoring the blood glucose of patients in the intensive care unit, it can be useful to differentiate between people with and without diabetes. The authors Andreas Birkenfeld, DZD spokesperson and Medical Director of the…

After weight loss, people with overweight and obesity express more of the protein Kallistatin* in subcutaneous white adipose tissue. This was demonstrated by researchers from the DZD in a recent study. In addition, Kallistatin improves metabolism and…

Researchers Identify Sex-Specific Differences

The development of the human brain is a key factor in mental health. Already in the early stages of life, the way in which the brain receives and processes signals and information changes significantly…

In the latest episode of DocFischer, researchers at the DZD explain what lies behind prediabetes and whether lifestyle changes can help.

Many people suffer from type II diabetes, sometimes without even knowing it. Prof. Andreas Birkenfeld explains why exercise and the right diet are particularly important.

The TV program BR Gesundheit ('Health') on October 10 was dedicated to the topic "Diabetes - Fight Against Diabetes". In the various reports, researchers of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) were interviewed as experts. For example, on…

Prediabetes is a preliminary stage of type 2 diabetes with an increased risk of heart attack, kidney and eye diseases and various types of cancer. Scientists from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) show that remission of prediabetes is…

The sensitivity of the brain to insulin plays a crucial role in regulating whole-body insulin sensitivity during the menstrual cycle, as a recent paper by Martin Heni, Stephanie Kullmann and colleagues published in Nature Metabolism suggests.

Lean, metabolically unhealthy, people have a risk of cardiovascular disease that is higher than the risk observed in obese, metabolically healthy people. Recently, novel cluster analyses also identified a large heterogeneity in the risk of type 2…

Three young scientists of the IDM can count themselves among the winners of last years DZD Award. The award ceremony took place during the 26th DZD Workshop hosted in Tübingen.

Those affected are unsuspecting because a lipid metabolism disorder often causes no symptoms - until a heart attack or stroke occurs. However, patients are not powerless.

In a highly competitive procedure, the Group Metabolic Imaging at the IDM was approved by the DFG for 3 years of funding.

Helmholtz Munich scientist Stephanie Kullmann is awarded this year's Ferdinand Bertram Award of the German Diabetes Society (DDG). With this award, the DDG honors her research on the role of central nervous processes in the prevention and treatment…

In a highly competitive procedure, 2 Research Training Groups in Tübingen were approved by the DFG for 5 years of funding.