IDO, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity

Awards & Grants, Diabetes, IDO,

Timo Müller Receives the ADA 2026 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has announced the recipients of this year's National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Awards. Among this year’s awardees is Prof. Timo Müller, Director of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO) at…

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Transfer, Diabetes, HI-MAG,

Translation: Where Medical Research Reaches People

How can we bring new scientific insights to patients more quickly? At Helmholtz Munich, we work hand in hand with leading clinics across Germany to translate research findings directly and purposefully into new therapeutic approaches — and,…

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Awards & Grants, Diabetes, IDF, Environmental Health, EPI,

Helmholtz Munich Secures Funding to Investigate Early-Stage Type 1 Diabetes in Adults

Helmholtz Munich has been awarded a prestigious grant of up to 900 000 US Dollar from Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization. The funding will support the research into early-stage T1D in adults,…

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Awards & Grants, Diabetes, IDM,

Anja Schork Receives “Junior Faculty Award 2025”

The journal Metabolism honors Dr. Anja Schork, who works at the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases at Helmholtz Munich at the University of Tübingen and at the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), with the Junior Faculty…

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IDM,

IDM Researchers Accompany Hirschhausen Documentary “Hirschhausen and the Sugar”

Sugar can be enjoyable, but it can also make you ill. How much sugar is still healthy? And are sweeteners really a good alternative? Eckart von Hirschhausen addresses these questions in his new ARD documentary “Hirschhausen und der Zucker”…

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Awards & Grants, Diabetes, IDF,

Sandra Hummel Awarded the Dr. Heinz Bürger-Büsing Prize

Prof. Sandra Hummel, lead scientist of the research area “Lifestyle, Obesity, and Epigenetic Programming in Type 1 and Gestational Diabetes” at the Institute of Diabetes Research at Helmholtz Munich, has been awarded the Dr. Heinz Bürger-Büsing…

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