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New Research Findings, Diabetes, IDM,

Normalizing Blood Sugar Can Halve Heart Attack Risk

For the first time, an international analysis has shown that when people with prediabetes bring their blood glucose back into the normal range through lifestyle changes, their risk of heart attack, heart failure, and premature death is cut in half.…

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IDM,

Normalizing blood sugar can halve heart attack risk

For the first time, an international analysis has shown that when people with prediabetes bring their blood glucose back into the normal range through lifestyle changes, their risk of heart attack, heart failure, and premature death is cut in half.…

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Featured Publication, Diabetes, HI-MAG,

New "Cool-Down" Hormone Found: Vaspin Slows the Body’s Heat-Producing Fat

A research team at Helmholtz Munich has uncovered a previously unknown “cool-down” signal within body fat. Led by PD Dr. John Heiker and Inka Rapöhn from the Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) at Helmholtz…

Raffaele Teperino

Awards & Grants, Diabetes,

PRO-SCIENTIA Award for Raffaele Teperino

Dr. Raffaele Teperino, Principal Investigator of the Environmental Epigenetics Group at Helmholtz Munich, has been honored with the PRO-SCIENTIA Award 2025 of the Eckhart-Buddecke Foundation. The award, endowed with 10,000 euros, recognizes…

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AI, New Research Findings, Diabetes, IDO,

C-COMPASS: AI-Based Software Maps Proteins and Lipids Within Cells

A new tool developed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research and the University of Bonn makes spatial proteomics and lipidomics easier to use – no coding required. C-COMPASS allows scientists to profile where proteins and…

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Awards & Grants, Diabetes, HI-MAG,

Eric Wenzel Receives the 2025 Jürgen-Bierich Research Award

Dr. Eric Wenzel, Clinician Scientist at the Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Institute for Metabolism, Obesity, and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of Helmholtz Munich and the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University, has been awarded the Jürgen-Bierich…

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