Deputy head of Division ”Pathophysiology of Prediabetes”
Prof. Fritz Schick
" My research involves the development of non-invasive methods to accurately characterise tissue composition and function in pre-diabetes and diabetes."
Academic Pathway & Research Area
Fritz Schick studied medicine and physics at the University of Tuebingen (Germany) where he graduated in medicine in 1989 and in Physics in 1990. He joined the Institute of Experimental Physics in Tuebingen from 1990 to 1996 in the group headed by Prof. O. Lutz, where he worked in the field of MR sequence development for experimental and clinical MRI and MRS studies.
From 1996 up to now he has been working in the Clinic of Radiology (chairmen: C.D Claussen followed by K. Nikolaou) of Tuebingen University. In 2001 he has got a permanent professorship as head of the Section on Experimental Radiology. Main areas of work comprise quantitative MRI and MRS and applications in musculature, liver, adipose tissue and bone marrow.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Exerimental Radiology Medical physics Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy Analysis of medical imaging data cohort studies
Professional Background
Head of Section on Metabolic Imaging, Paul Langerhans Institute for Research in Prediabetes
Univ.-Professor, Head of Section of Experimental Radiology, Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) in Experimental Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Honors and Awards
- Technologie-Transfer-Handwerk Professor Adalbert Seifriz-Preis 2003
- Stipend of Siemens AG, Ernst-von-Siemens-Stipend 1992 - 1994
- Dr.-Friedrich-Förster-Award, Department of Physics 1991
Publications
Wang, Y. ; Sandforth, A. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Ganslmeier, M. ; Cheng, Y. ; Sandforth, L. ; Katzenstein, S. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Kantartzis, K. ; Preissl, H. ; Fritsche, A. ; Stefan, N. ; Bergman, M. ; Birkenfeld, A.L.
Lifestyle intervention is more effective in high 1-hour post-load glucose than in prediabetes for restoring β-cell function, reducing ectopic fat, and preventing type 2 diabetes.Sandforth, A. ; Arreola, E.V. ; Hanson, R.L. ; Wewer Albrechtsen, N.J. ; Holst, J.J. ; Ahrends, R. ; Coman, C. ; Gerst, F. ; Lorza-Gil, E. ; Cheng, Y. ; Sandforth, L. ; Katzenstein, S. ; Ganslmeier, M. ; Seissler, J. ; Hauner, H. ; Perakakis, N. ; Wagner, R. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Peter, A. ; Lehmann, R. ; Weigert, C. ; Maurer, J. ; Preissl, H. ; Heni, M. ; Szendrödi, J. ; Kopf, S. ; Solimena, M. ; Schwarz, P. ; Blüher, M. ; Häring, H.-U. ; Hrabě de Angelis, M. ; Schürmann, A. ; Kabisch, S. ; Mai, K. ; Pfeiffer, A.F.H. ; Bornstein, S. ; Stumvoll, M. ; Roden, M. ; Stefan, N. ; Fritsche, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R.
Prevention of type 2 diabetes through prediabetes remission without weight loss.Heni, M. ; Hummel, J. ; Fritsche, L. ; Wagner, R. ; Relker, L. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Schleicher, E. ; Königsrainer, A. ; Häring, H.-U. ; Stefan, N. ; Fritsche, A. ; Peter, A.
Elevated cholinesterase activity and the metabolic syndrome-dissecting fatty liver, insulin resistance and dysglycaemia.Haueise, T. ; Schick, F. ; Stefan, N. ; Grune, E. ; von Itter, M.N. ; Kauczor, H.U. ; Nattenmüller, J. ; Norajitra, T. ; Nonnenmacher, T. ; Rospleszcz, S. ; Maier-Hein, K.H. ; Schlett, C.L. ; Weiss, J.B. ; Fischer, B. ; Jöckel, K.H. ; Krist, L. ; Niendorf, T. ; Peters, A. ; Sedlmeier, A.M. ; Willich, S.N. ; Bamberg, F. ; Machann, J.
Refining visceral adipose tissue quantification: Influence of sex, age, and BMI on single slice estimation in 3D MRI of the German National Cohort.Haueise, T. ; Schick, F. ; Stefan, N. ; Machann, J.
Comparison of the accuracy of commercial two-point and multi-echo Dixon MRI for quantification of fat in liver, paravertebral muscles, and vertebral bone marrow.Sandforth, A. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Arreola, E.V. ; Hanson, R.L. ; Sancar, G. ; Katzenstein, S. ; Lange, K. ; Preissl, H. ; Dreher, S. ; Weigert, C. ; Wagner, R. ; Kantartzis, K. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Lehmann, R. ; Peter, A. ; Katsouli, N. ; Ntziachristos, V. ; Dannecker, C. ; Fritsche, L. ; Perakakis, N. ; Heni, M. ; Nawroth, P.P. ; Kopf, S. ; Pfeiffer, A.F.H. ; Kabisch, S. ; Stumvoll, M. ; Schwarz, P.E.H. ; Hauner, H ; Lechner, A. ; Seissler, J. ; Yurchenko, I. ; Icks, A. ; Solimena, M. ; Häring, H.-U. ; Szendroedi, J. ; Schürmann, A. ; Hrabě de Angelis, M. ; Blüher, M. ; Roden, M. ; Bornstein, S. ; Stefan, N. ; Fritsche, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L.
Mechanisms of weight loss-induced remission in people with prediabetes: A post-hoc analysis of the randomised, controlled, multicentre Prediabetes Lifestyle Intervention Study (PLIS).Haueise, T. ; Schick, F. ; Stefan, N. ; Schlett, C.L. ; Weiss, J.B. ; Nattenmüller, J. ; Göbel-Guéniot, K. ; Norajitra, T. ; Nonnenmacher, T. ; Kauczor, H.U. ; Maier-Hein, K.H. ; Niendorf, T. ; Pischon, T. ; Jöckel, K.H. ; Umutlu, L. ; Peters, A. ; Rospleszcz, S. ; Kröncke, T. ; Hosten, N. ; Völzke, H. ; Krist, L. ; Willich, S.N. ; Bamberg, F. ; Machann, J.
Analysis of volume and topography of adipose tissue in the trunk: Results of MRI of 11,141 participants in the German National Cohort.Stefan, N. ; Schick, F. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Häring, H.-U. ; White, M.F.
The role of hepatokines in NAFLD.Haueise, T. ; Stefan, N. ; Schulz, T.J. ; Schick, F. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Machann, J.
Automated shape-independent assessment of the spatial distribution of proton density fat fraction in vertebral bone marrow.Lehn-Stefan, A. ; Peter, A. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Randrianarisoa, E. ; Heni, M. ; Wagner, R. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Fritsche, A. ; Schulze, M.B. ; Stefan, N. ; Kantartzis, K.
Impaired metabolic health and low cardiorespiratory fitness independently associate with subclinical atherosclerosis in obesity.