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The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is now inviting applications for becoming a DZD Project Partner. The program includes project funding from 2025 to 2027. This call is open for scientists in academic diabetes and metabolism research…

Big, loud, highly emotional. The 15th edition of the REWE Team Challenge set new standards, with an incredible 28,500 participants, more than ever before. And of course, 16 running enthusiasts from DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden joined…

At the Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) in Leipzig, two metabolic chambers for humans have been constructed with the objective of determining the influence of obesity and other metabolic diseases on energy…

If the day-night rhythm is disrupted, important key points in the genetic makeup can change. Current studies show that here, fathers not only put their own health at risk, but also that of their children. The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)…

The German Center for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine (DZKJ) will become a new partner of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG) from June 1, 2024. This expands the number of DZG centers to eight. The aim of the German Centers for Health…

A recent study conducted by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research provides new insights into how fathers' diets and overweight can affect their children's health even before conception. The findings of the study can help…

Associations between multiple neurological biomarkers and distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy: KORA F4/FF4 study.

Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews 2024

Neuherberg

A recent study conducted by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research provides new insights into how fathers' diets and overweight can affect their children's health even before conception. The findings of the study can…

On May 25, 2024, approximately 2,500 people came together in Dresden to send a strong signal for the value of democracy and liberal-democratic coexistence and celebrated a peaceful and joyful festival of democracy. More than 60 institutions from…

At the suggestion of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG), we, Mrs. Lieselotte Klotz (member of the DZNE Patient Advisory Board, member of the "Living with Dementia" Advisory Board DAlzG, Alzheimer Europe, EWGPWD) and Mr. Johannes Förner…

What does sugar do to our bodies? Can you get really addicted to sugar? What impact would a sugar tax have on consumption in Germany? In a new episode of "Gute Frage" ("good question"), experts from TU Dresden talk about the topic of sugar. Among…

Air pollution, noise or microorganisms - our health is influenced by many external factors. The totality of these factors is referred to as the exposome. In the current issue of SYNERGIE, the magazine of the German Centers for Health Research, we…

The national diabetes information portal diabinfo.de is expanding its range of information on prevention and now also provides information on diabetes-associated non-communicable diseases.

At this year's Diabetes Congress (May 8-11) in Berlin, the German Diabetes Association (DDG) awarded prizes to numerous scientists and researchers from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) for their successful research and long-standing…

The German Diabetes Association (DDG) has given the Werner Creutzfeldt Award to DZD researcher Prof. Dr. Robert Wagner. With this award, the specialist society honors his extraordinary achievements in the field of research into the pathogenesis of…

This year, the highest award of the German Diabetes Association (DDG) – the

Paul Langerhans Medal – is awarded to Prof. Dr. med. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler. The Director of the Institute of Diabetes Research at Helmholtz Munich and scientist at the…

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that leads to disrupted glucose metabolism. It requires lifelong insulin therapy. The Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes (GPPAD) collaborates within a European network to develop new…

Dual and Triple Incretin‑Based Co‑agonists: Novel Therapeutics for Obesity and Diabetes.

Diabetes Therapy 2024

At the Annual Meeting of the German Diabetes Association (May 8-10 in Berlin), researchers from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) will present the latest findings from their research in numerous symposia, lectures and poster sessions.…

[Translate to Englisch:] Jens Brüning vor der Tür zu seinem Institut

Jens Brüning, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and associated partner in the DZD, has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC), the highest personal honour that the European Union can bestow on…

What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a few…

Cologne

What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a…

A position is available in the editorial office of the national diabetes information portal diabinfo.de in Munich, Germany. An online science journalist is sought for the full-time vacancy.

Every year, the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) honors young researchers at the beginning of their careers with a DZD Award. This internal award recognizes outstanding scientific achievements in applied or clinical research presented at…

Dresden

Dr. Ingmar Schäfer has been appointed Professor and Chair of Structural Membrane Biology jointly at the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) and the Center of Membrane Biochemistry and Lipid Research (ZML), effective April 1, 2024.

Dr. Ingmar Schäfer has been appointed Professor and Chair of Structural Membrane Biology jointly at the DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) and the Center of Membrane Biochemistry and Lipid Research (ZML), effective April 1, 2024.

At the beginning of April, the Citizens' and Patients' Advisory Board of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) met for its 5th meeting, this time at the DZD partner in Dresden. This session marked a further step towards more intensive patient…

Workshop contents
15.04.24 at 09:00-12:30 - SESSION 1: Funding programmes and how to read the documents
16.04.24 at 09:00-12:30 - SESSION 2: Develop your idea into a work plan
22.04.24 at 09:00-12:30 - SESSION 3: Communicate your project…

"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…

Tübingen

Differentiating between people with and without diabetes can be useful for controlling and monitoring blood glucose levels in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). This is the argument made by authors Andreas Birkenfeld, speaker of the…

Differentiating between people with and without diabetes can be useful for controlling and monitoring blood glucose levels in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). This is the argument made by authors Andreas Birkenfeld, speaker of the German…

Timo Müllers research is focused on the development and evaluation of novel unimolecular pharmacotherapies to treat the metabolic syndrome, and in particular obesity and diabetes. He is part of an international team of scientists who pioneered the…

Prof. Stephan Herzig from the DZD partner Helmholtz Muich explains why intermittent fasting with conscious breaks of eating helps to bring the metabolism into harmony with the body's internal rhythm and thus improve health and prevent diseases such…

Neuherberg

Recent research underscores the critical role of adipocytes in storing fat, vital for organismal survival. Dysfunctional adipocytes can lead to metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease, highlighting the importance…

Potsdam-Rehbrücke

Since April 1, 2024, Dr. Maximilian Kleinert has held a Heisenberg professorship at the University Potsdam and headed the Department of Molecular Physiology of Exercise and Nutrition at the German Institute of Human Nutrition…

Recent research underscores the critical role of adipocytes in storing fat, vital for organismal survival. Dysfunctional adipocytes can lead to metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease, highlighting the importance of…

Modular segmentation, spatial analysis and visualization of volume electron microscopy datasets.

Nat Protoc. 2024

Since April 1, 2024, Maximilian Kleinert has held a Heisenberg professorship at the University Potsdam and headed the Department of Molecular Physiology of Exercise and Nutrition at the DZD partner German Institute of Human Nutrition…

With 250 researchers and clinicians, a budget of over 11 million euros and 240 publications alone in 2023, the three partner sites of the German Centers for Health Research located in Dresden are a heavyweight on the biomedical campus in Dresden.…

As outlined in the Innovation Fund of the German Centers for Health Research (DZGIF), the call for proposals for 2025/26 has been opened. The topic is "Inter-Organ Metabolomics". It is already the third call of the joint research funding program of…

Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos from the DZD partner Helmholtz Munich has been elected as a new member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. This esteemed recognition stands as one of the highest honors for scientists and is awarded through a…

Tübingen

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…

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.

Düsseldorf

Researchers from the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and the Robert Koch Institute have discovered a law for the relationship between mortality and age in people with diabetes: According to this law, mortality in people with diabetes in…

Researchers from the DZD partner German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and the Robert Koch Institute have discovered a law for the relationship between mortality and age in people with diabetes: According to this law, mortality in people with diabetes in…

Prof. Antje Körner, Head of the Metabolism Division at the Helmholtz Institute of Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) at the DZD partner Helmholtz Munich and Professor of Metabolic Research at Leipzig University’s Faculty of Medicine,…

Association of plasma proteomics with incident coronary heart disease in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes: results from the population-based KORA study.

Cardiovasc Diabetol 2024

Letter to the Chairman of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, and to German MEPs in the EU Parliament: Please stand up for 32 million people with diabetes in the EU!

(German only)

Dresden

Endocrine cells utilize secretory granules for the storage and regulated release of peptide- hormones and neurotransmitters - a process influenced by spatiotemporal factors like the proximity of these organelles to the plasma membrane and…

Neuherberg

Research targeting the insulin-inhibitory receptor, called inceptor, unveils promising avenues for beta cell protection, offering hope for causal diabetes therapy. A novel study in mice with diet-induced obesity demonstrates that the…

The executive boards of the German Society for Endocrinology (DGE), the German Diabetes Association (DDG) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) would like to comment on the draft law to amend "the Animal Welfare Act and the Animal…

Endocrine cells utilize secretory granules for the storage and regulated release of peptide- hormones and neurotransmitters - a process influenced by spatiotemporal factors like the proximity of these organelles to the plasma membrane and their age.…

Research targeting the insulin-inhibitory receptor, called inceptor, unveils promising avenues for beta cell protection, offering hope for causal diabetes therapy. A novel study in mice with diet-induced obesity demonstrates that the knock-out of…

The DZD Core Data Set has defined a standard for clinical diabetes and metabolic research for three years. In order to ensure uniform data collection, the publicly accessible metadata of the DZD Core Data Set is continuously expanded in line with the…

Tübingen

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 at different stages of development.…

The scientific medical society German Diabetes Association (DDG) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), active in translational diabetes research and one of the eight German Centers for Health Research (DZG), basically welcome the new…

The genetic information in our cells harbors secrets about the risks, progression, and complications of many diseases. With hundreds of millions of patients worldwide, identifying and understanding genetic risk for type 2 diabetes is of particular…

The German Centers for Health Research, and thus explicitly the DZD, support the statement of the Alliance of Science Organizations for an Open and Democratic Society.

The German Centers for Health Research, and thus explicitly the DZD, support the statement of the Alliance of Science Organisations for an Open and Democratic Society.

Regulation of multiple signaling pathways promotes the consistent expansion of human pancreatic progenitors in defined conditions.

Elife 2024

Developmental metformin exposure does not rescue physiological impairments derived from early exposure to altered maternal metabolic state in offspring mice.

Molecular Metabolism 2023

Potsdam-Rehbrücke

With the rise in gestational diabetes and metabolic disorders during pregnancy, metformin is also being prescribed more frequently. Although it is known that the oral antidiabetic agent can cross the placental barrier, the impacts…

Diabetes is a risk factor for severe illness with COVID-19 and, conversely, infection with the coronavirus increases the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes. So far, little research has been conducted into whether vaccination against COVID-19…

The national diabetes information portal diabinfo.de and the Association of Diabetes Counseling and Training Professions in Germany (VDBD) have published an updated list of carbohydrate units (CU). This now provides a comprehensive overview of…

Düsseldorf

A landmark study by the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), published in ‘The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology’, sheds new light on the heterogeneity of type 2 diabetes. The researchers employed an innovative algorithm to stratify people with…

Type 2 diabetes is a disease that progresses very differently. DZD researchers applied an innovative algorithm to stratify people with type 2 diabetes based on routine data.

Neuherberg

A recent discovery led by Helmholtz Munich researchers from the Type 1 Diabetes Immunology Research Unit has uncovered how regulatory immune T-cells (called Tregs) interplay and control metabolic tissues. The new findings published in…

Researchers at DZD partner Helmholtz Munich have discovered how regulatory T cells of the immune system, also known as Tregs, interact with and control metabolic tissues.

Starting January 1, 2024, the DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) has become a full member of DRESDEN-concept, a research alliance of 37 partner institutions, including TUD Dresden University of Technology and non-university research…

Düsseldorf

A major new study by the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) has evaluated the effect of diet on the management of type 2 diabetes and the prevention of complications. The review shows the positive effects of different diets (plant-based,…

Researchers from the DZD partner German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf have systematically investigated the influence of different diets and dietary factors on the management of type 2 diabetes and the prevention of complications for the first time in…

The German Center for Diabetes Research wishes you merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year.

Mannheim/Heidelberg

What role do omega-6 fatty acids play in cardiovascular disease and diabetes? Scientists from Mannheim, together with researchers from Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Hangzhou in China, have investigated the breakdown of omega-6 fatty…

The journal 'Science' has selected the development of glucagon-like peptide-1 (#GLP1) agonists as "Breakthrough of the Year 2023". Drugs based on glucagon-like peptide-1 (#GLP1) agonists represent a major breakthrough in the treatment of obesity and…

Integrating single-cell imaging and RNA sequencing datasets links differentiation and morphogenetic dynamics of human pancreatic endocrine progenitors.

Developmental Cell 2023

This evening, the Süddeutsche Zeitung's health forum will be looking at the so-called "weight loss injection". DZD scientists Prof. Dr. Matthias Blüher and PD Dr. Timo Müller will be among those discussing the question of "what it is good for and for…

Registration opens mid-November

Effective political decisions are based on sound science. With this guiding principle, Springer Nature brought the successful US event series “Science on the Hill” to Germany for the first time. Under the banner “Science on the Spree,” the new format…

The DZD partner German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) opened the doors of its state-of-the-art research building, the Gerty Cori House (GCH), to the public for the first time on December 2. Around 200 visitors took the opportunity to take a tour…

Prof. Michael Laxy (rechts) und Karl Emmert-Fees

A soft drink tax in Germany could reduce daily sugar consumption, prevent illness and thus cut healthcare costs. This is what a new study suggests. The sugar tax could save 16 billion euros in economic costs for the years 2023-2043, of which around 4…

München

A simulation study conducted by a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) demonstrates that a soft drink tax in Germany would have significant positive effects. In all of the simulated variants evaluated, less sugar was consumed…

Around two million people in Germany live with diabetes without knowing it. Most of them have type 2 diabetes, which develops without symptoms. To accompany World Diabetes Day, the Diabetes Network Germany cooperation network and the Federal Center…

A new generation of drugs may become a "gamechanger" in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In the recently published issue of the DZG magazine SYNERGIE, we present how different hormones are combined in polyagonists and how these new drugs…

For a long time, medical research, and therefore many therapies, did not address the differences between men and women. With sometimes fatal consequences for the gender that is ignored. ARD Wissen broadcast an report on this topic entitled "Only a…

The national diabetes information portal diabinfo.de will be represented twice this year at the Diabetes Autumn Conference (Diabetes Herbsttagung) of the German Diabetes Association in cooperation with the German Society for Nutritional Medicine in…

Neuherberg

The increasing amount of patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes benefit greatly from the recently developed GIPR:GLP-1R co-agonists. These novel compounds lead to substantial weight loss, offering a revolutionary approach to patients…

New Call for DZD Project Partners

PLID Running Teams Among the 28,500 Sports Enthusiasts at the 15th Rewe Team Challenge

Metabolic Chambers Inaugurated at HI-MAG - New Research Opportunities for Analyzing Human Energy Metabolism

DZD Article in SYNERGIE: When the Body Clock Goes Crazy

German Center for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine Enters the Start-Up Phase As the New German Center for Health Research

Father's Diet Before Conception Influences Children's Health

Biomarkers Indicate Damage to Nerves

Father's Diet Before Conception Influences Children's Health

Strong Statement for Diversity, Freedom, and Respectful Social Interaction

Together for the Future: Patient Representatives at the Perspective Forum of the German Future Prize

Sugar: Dangerous for your Health? "Gute Frage" about Diabetes, Sugar Tax & Sweeteners

External Stimuli: New Issue of the DZG Magazine SYNERGIE

diabinfo.de: Additional Information on Prevention

DZG Lunchtime Career Talk: Success Factor Academic Network: Cross DZG Connections

German Diabetes Association (DDG) Honors DZD Researchers

Robert Wagner Receives the Werner Creutzfeldt Award

Anette-Gabriele Ziegler Receives the Paul Langerhans Medal

SARS-CoV-2 and Type 1 Diabetes in Children: New Study Aims to Explore the Relationship

Polyagonists Enable Increasingly Effective Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes

DDG Diabetes Congress 2024

DZG Lunchtime Career Talk - live at the DDG Conference

DDG Congress: Diabetes Research from Many Perspectives

European Research Council Advanced Grant Awarded to Jens Brüning

Food in Sight? The Liver is Ready!

Food in Sight? The Liver is Ready!

diabinfo.de: Open Position in the Editorial Office

DZD Awards: Honor for Young Researchers

DZD Workshop

DZD NEXT Symposium

Dr. Ingmar Schäfer Appointed as W2 Professor and Chair for Structural Membrane Biology at PLID and ZML in Dresden

Dr. Ingmar Schäfer Appointed Professor of Structural Membrane Biology in Dresden

Student's Diabetes Day

Citizens' and Patients' Advisory Board of the DZD meets at the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden

DZD NEXT Training: Grant Proposal Writing

DZD NEXT Training: Presentation Skills

DZD Scientist Birkenfeld on "Hirschhausen and the Weight Loss Injection"

Healthy future: focus on nutrition, medicine and diabetes prevention

Blood Glucose Control in the Intensive Care Unit: Differentiated Values for People With and Without Diabetes are Useful

Blood Glucose Control in the Intensive Care Unit: Differentiated Values for People With and Without Diabetes are Useful

DZD Scientist Timo Müller Appointed to Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Fasting for Health: When Metabolism and Internal Clock are aligned

Scientists Reveal Adipocyte's Metabolic Role and Identify Treatment Targets

DIfE Researcher Maximilian Kleinert Receives a Heisenberg Professorship

Role of Adipocytes in Metabolic Disorders Recognized

Novel Protocol Advances 3D Electron Microscopy Analysis

DZD Researcher Maximilian Kleinert Receives a Heisenberg Professorship

Cancer, Diabetes & Neurodegenerative Diseases – 6th Joint Dresden DZG Symposium

6th Joint Dresden DZG Symposium

DZG Lunchtime Career Talk: Clinical Trial Management - Academia vs. Industry

New Call of the DZG Innovation Fund

Vasilis Ntziachristos is a New Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Kallistatin Contributes to the Beneficial Metabolic Effects of Weight Loss

Kallistatin Protein as a Future Treatment Option for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes?

Astonishing Conformity: Gompertz Law Predicts Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes

Astonishing Conformity: Gompertz Law Predicts Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes

Obesity Prize for Excellence for Antje Körner

Potential Novel Biomarkers of Coronary Heart Disease Discovered

67th German Congress for Endocrinology

Diabetes Community Manifesto of the DDG and DZD for the 2024 European elections

New Insights into Proteomic and Lipidomic Changes During Insulin Granule Aging

Rising Focus on 'Inceptor' as a Type 2 Diabetes Therapeutic Target

Statement of the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE), the German Diabetes Association (DDG) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) on the draft law of the Animal Welfare Act

Proteomic and Lipidomic Changes During Insulin Granule Aging

Rising Focus on 'Inceptor' as a Type 2 Diabetes Therapeutic Target

FAIRification of the DZD Core Data Set

New Insights into Human Brain Development

Joint statement of the German Diabetes Association (DDG) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) on the draft law for the new Medical Research Act (MFG) to be implemented

What Our Genetic Information Tells Us About Type 2 Diabetes Risk and Complications

Statement of the Alliance of Science Organisations for an Open and Democratic Society

DZG for an Open and Democratic Society

Regenerative Medicine: Increased Availability of Pancreatic Progenitor Cells

Does Metformin Influence Brain Development? Research Data from a Study with Mice

Metformin During Pregnancy Impacts Offspring Brain Development

Vaccination Against COVID-19 Could Reduce Diabetes Risk

Updated CU List from VDBD and diabinfo.de Expanded with Modern Foods

DDZ Study with Innovative Insights into the Heterogeneity of Type 2 Diabetes

Algorithm for Precise Diagnosis of Diabetes

Metabolic Diseases: How Immune Cells Regulate Tissue Function

Immune Cells Play a Role in Maintaining Metabolic Balance

Paul-Langerhans-Institut Dresden becomes a Full Member of DRESDEN-concept