Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Susanna Hofmann is a Physician Scientist, W2 Professor of Lipid Metabolism and Metabolic Diseases at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) and Head of the Independent Research Group "Women and Diabetes" at Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU).

After her studies at the University of Padua and the Free University of Berlin, she completed her doctoral thesis with Summa cum Laude and worked as a resident at the Medical Clinic of the LMU. Subsequently, she joined the Division of Experimental Diabetes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, as a postdoctoral fellow with an Emmy Noether fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to study cardiovascular complications in diabetes. After a long research stay in the USA, she moved back to Munich in 2011.

The focus of her research is on gender differences in cardio-metabolic disease and the development of personalized therapeutic approaches. At LMU, she teaches the course: "Gender Medicine: Gender Aspects in Endocrinology and Diabetology" in the clinical section of the medical faculty. She is a board member of the DFG funded SFB1123 and a member of the faculty council. In addition to her reviewing activities for numerous high-ranking biomedical journals and European research funding agencies (EU Horizon 2020, FWO, La Caixa), she is Co-Editor In Chief of the journal Frontiers in Endocrinology Section Clinical Diabetes since 2020. Since 2018, she has been a board member of the German Society of Gender Medicine and has contributed to the establishment of a European Gender Health Network and a strategy for the implementation of sex and gender aspects in biomedicine and health research through her participation in the European Gender Medicine Project (EUGenMed).

DiabetesObesityDyslipidemiaCardiovascular disease