Patients and other interested individuals can call in questions on the topic of “Daily Life with Diabetes” in a live radio broadcast of a medical question-and-answer session on April 21, 2015 from 10:10 am to 11:30 am.

Bonifacio E, Ziegler AG, Klingensmith G, Schober E, Bingley PJ, Rottenkolber M, Theil A, Eugster A, Puff R, Peplow C, Buettner F, Lange K, Hasford J, Achenbach P. Pre-POINT Study Group. Effects of High-Dose Oral Insulin on Immune Responses in…

We are pleased to announce the 3rd Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference. This meeting will be held on September 19-21, 2015, at the Lenbach Palais, in Munich, Germany.

After last years’ great success the recurring conference series…

On April 14, 2015 the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf (DDZ), a partner in the DZD, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Hermann Gröhe, Federal Minister of Health, and Dr. Thomas Grünewald, State Secretary at the Ministry of Innovation, Science and…

The Diabetesinformationsdienst München (Diabetes Information Service Munich) of Helmholtz Zentrum München will host its 3rd Diabetes Patients’ Day at Nuremberg Hospital on Saturday, June 20th. The event shall provide information and promote dialogue…

At the 14th International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society (IDS) in Munich from April 12 to 16, 2015, scientists from around the world presented their current research results on type 1 diabetes and discussed their latest findings. The…

Wahl S, Vogt S, Stückler F, Krumsiek J, Bartel J, Kacprowski T, Schramm K, Carstensen M, Rathmann W, Roden M, Jourdan C, Kangas AJ, Soininen P, Ala-Korpela M, Nöthlings U, Boeing H, Theis FJ, Meisinger C, Waldenberger M, Suhre K, Homuth G, Gieger C,…

According to a study by a research team led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), intermittent fasting reduces the amount of harmful liver lipids conducive to insulin resistance* and protects obese mice against diabetes. In addition, it…

The adverse health effects caused by fine particles have been known for some time. In addition, ultrafine particles appear to play a significant role in cardiac function – even if an individual is exposed to these for only a few minutes, as…

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.”, developed by the DZD scientist Professor Karsten Müssig, trained in the German Sports and Olympics Museum with the table tennis paralympics champion Holger Nikelis. The…

Marquard J., Otter S., Welters A., Stirban A., Fischer A., Eglinger J., Herebian D., Kletke O., Klemen M.S., Stožer A., Wnendt S., Piemonti L., Köhler M., Ferrer J., Thorens B., Schliess F., Rupnik M.S., Heise T., Berggren PO., Klöcker N., Meissner…

On March 16-18, 2015 more than 100 novice and established islet cell researchers gathered together in Bremen to present and discuss the latest research results in the field of islet cells. The event, which was also supported by the German Center for…

DZD scientist Prof. Matthias Tschöp as a guest at BR alpha Campus Talks about new ways of curing diabetes.

High pollution levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide lead to an earlier manifestation of type 1 diabetes in small children. This is suggested by analyses of 671 type 1 diabetes patients, which were recorded between April 2009 and May 2013…

Dextromethorphan, an active ingredient in many nonprescription cough-suppressant drugs, improves blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. This finding was made by researchers of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), the…

Prof. Günther Wess, Scientific Director of Helmholtz Zentrum München (a research partner of the DZD) discusses obstacles and success factors of translational research together with Prof. Ernst Th. Rietschel, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Prof.…

The proportion of overweight people is steadily rising in Germany, leading to an increase in the number of patients later diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemia or diabetes. In a just-published study in the journal BMC Medicine, DZD…

Hoboth, P., Müller, A., Ivanova A., Mziaut H., Dehghany J., Sönmez A., Lachnit M., Meyer-Hermann M., Kalaidzidis Y., Solimena M. Aged insulin granules display reduced microtubule-dependent mobility and are disposed within actin-positive multigranular…

Preventive measures are an important element in combating diabetes. But which measures lead to success? At the DZD site in Tübingen, more than one thousand participants have been enrolled and undergone medical examinations in intervention studies on…

The Düsseldorf initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) of the DZD scientist Professor Karsten Müssig was recognized for its outstanding commitment in the field of health education. The aim of SMS is…

There are many reasons why people gain different amounts of weight and why fat becomes stored in different parts of their bodies. Now researchers, partly of the DZD, conducted the largest study of genetic variation to date to home in on genetic…

Düsseldorf elementary school children participating in the initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) of DZD scientist Prof. Karsten Müssig baked together with artisan bakers and Ursula Hofer, a former…

The Abatacept study is pursuing a promising new approach for the prevention of type 1 diabetes. The drug Abatacept shows promise in suppressing the activity of dysregulated immune cells, thus preserving insulin production over a longer period or…

For his many years of research on the pathophysiology, diagnostics, and clinical treatment of diabetic neuropathies Prof. Dr. med. Dan Ziegler, deputy director of the Institute for Clinical Diabetology at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and partner…

From February 5-7, 2015, diabetes researchers and clinicians met for an interdisciplinary exchange in Düsseldorf. There, the 20th Annual Meeting of the North Rhine-Westphalian Society of Endocrinology and Diabetology was held jointly with the 30th…

On May 20, 2015, on the occasion of the visit of the Danish Crown Prince Couple, a Danish-Bavarian dialogue on politically sustainable diabetes strategies took place in the Bavarian Parliament under the aegis of Parliament President Barbara Stamm.…

On February 2, 2015 a Parliamentary Evening took place in Berlin for all German Centres for Health Research (DZG). State secretary Thomas Rachel gave an overview of the progress of these research collaborations in the fight against six major…

Children participating in the Düsseldorf initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) earn their “nutrition pilot license” under the guidance of dietary assistants from the Educational Center of the…

InnoLife has been selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for EIT Health. With a total volume of EUR 2.1 billion it is one of the largest public funded initiatives for…

Keystone Symposium
Diabetes and Metabolic Dysfunction (J6)
27. January - 01. February 2015, Santa Fe, USA
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10. Congress of the Central European Diabetes Society/
30. Donau-Symposium (FID/CEDA) joining
20. Annual Meeting of North…

One country by itself cannot solve the challenges of the increasing incidence of diabetes throughout the world. This was the consensus of the participants of the first German-French Conference on Diabetes Research, which was held in December 2014 in…

Professor Anette-Gabriele Ziegler has been awarded the 8th Annual Dr. Michael Brownlee Visiting Professor Lectureship in Diabetes Research of the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School in recognition of her research achievements in the…

Every day, nearly 1,000 people are diagnosed with diabetes; in Germany more than six million people have the disease. Most have type 2 diabetes, the non-autoimmune form of the disease. On average, type 2 diabetes is diagnosed eight to ten years too…

January 1st marked the launch of the Fr1da study, a screening project in Bavaria for the early detection of type 1 diabetes in children. The aim is to achieve early diagnosis and to provide the best possible treatment for the affected children.…

The heart and type 1 diabetes were the main topics in 2014 in the advanced training symposium for physicians organized by the Institute of Diabetes Research at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, in the Klinikum rechts der Isar. The…

The German Center for Diabetes Research wishes you merry christmas and a happy new year.

Under this motto, students participating in the initiative SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit." (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) prepared a balanced meal in the Hotel Courtyard by Marriott Seestern.

Researchers at Tübingen University Hospital showed last year that the concomitant presence of elevated fetuin-A and fatty acid levels increased the risk for the development of insulin resistance. The decreased insulin action in the body is seen as a…

A new substance that unifies the action profiles of three gastrointestinal hormones lowers the blood sugar level and reduces body fat considerably beyond existing drugs. With the discovery and validation of such novel molecules, scientists from the…

On December 11-12, 2014 the first German-French Conference on diabetes research will be held at the French Embassy in Berlin. It is also the kick-off event for the German-French Diabetes Academy of the German Center for Diabetes Research and…

As a pilot study of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has now shown, daily dietary intake of 50 g of rapeseed/canola oil – in contrast to olive oil – over a period of four weeks improves cholesterol levels and liver enzyme levels in…

Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut, head of the Young Investigator Group Molecular Endocrinology at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, has been awarded a grant endowed with nearly 1.5 million euros from funds of the European Research Council…

Individuals who suffer from a variety of unspecific somatic symptoms have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The symptom complex is thus an independent risk factor and not associated with classic diabetes risk factors, as scientists of…

The metabolic disorder diabetes mellitus and degenerative diseases of the nervous system may have one and the same cause. This discovery was made by Tübingen neuroscientists together with colleagues of the DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München within…

On November 23, 2014 the central public event for World Diabetes Day with nearly 4,000 participants was held in the Congress Center Leipzig (CCL). The interactive stand of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) offered visitors a varied…

Positive Response to the Nationwide Diabetes Telephone Campaign

On Friday, November 21, 2014, Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Georg Joost will be awarded the DAG Medal at the 30th Annual Meeting of the German Society for the Study of Obesity (DAG). The physician and pharmacologist will receive the medal for his outstanding…

Dr. Henrike Sell of the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, is this year’s prize recipient of the Dr. Günther and Imme Wille Foundation. The prize endowed with 10 000 euros is awarded by the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf to young…

On World Diabetes Day, which takes place every year on November 14th, iconic buildings throughout the world are illuminated with blue light. The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is also participating in the campaign “Diabetes: protect our…

The Düsseldorf primary school children participating in the initiative "SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit." (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) of the DZD scientist Professor Karsten Müssig had a lot of new activities to explore in November.…

The Helmholtz Zentrum München – in conjunction with the Bavarian State Ministry of Public Health and Care Services and other cooperation partners – has today given the green light for type 1 diabetes screening across Bavaria. The Fr1da study will…

Physicians and scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the Competence Network Diabetes Mellitus are hosting a Germany-wide Q & A session tonight.

An international team of scientists led by Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer and Natalia Rudovich of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner in the DZD, has identified a novel adipokine secreted by fat cells into the blood, which may promote…

Scientists at the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, have elucidated a previously unknown mechanism in the pathogenesis of the metabolic disease diabetes. The findings enable researchers for the first time to identify risk patients and to…

At the World Health Summit Experts Discuss How Research Results Can Reach the Patient Sooner

The Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science is honoring Prof. Dr. Matthias Tschöp from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, with this year's Linda and Jack Gill Distinguished Scientist Award. In doing so, the Gill Center…

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) together with the other five German Centers for Health Research (DZG) and the Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) will be part of a panel discussion at next week’s World Health Summit in…

The Annual Report 2013 of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) has been published.

Around 90 young scientists, PhD students and postdocs from around the world met in mid-September in Klosterneuburg near Vienna with seven distinguished diabetes researchers for an inspiring and insightful exchange of ideas. The German Center for…

After the Training & Education Board of the DZD had selected the award winners for 2013 last spring, the young researchers received their awards personally at the annual meeting of the EASD in Vienna. The doctoral students had held lectures or given…

The 2nd Annual Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference, held at Rilano No. 6 Lenbach Palais in Munich September 21st to 23rd, 2014, seamlessly continued the success of last year's opening conference. Top international researchers and promising…

On September 27, 2014 the German Diabetes Centre, a partner in the DZD, the Düsseldorf diabetologists and the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of German Diabetes Aid – People with Diabetes are inviting people with diabetes, their family…

Vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices contain many phytochemicals. As a research team led by physician Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner in the DZD, has shown for the first time, two of these natural…

Selective insulin action in certain brain areas improves glucose metabolism throughout the body. This is a finding of a study by scientists at the German Center for Diabetes Research from the Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of…

What are the consequences of permanently elevated blood glucose levels on a molecular level? The BMBF-funded research project EpiGlyko - The glyco-epigenome in type 2 diabetes is seeking the answer to this question. The German-French research team is…

Germany-wide Telephone Q & A Session on November11th

Job strain can significantly increase the risk of developing diabetes. This conclusion was based on prospective data from a population-based study conducted by scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the DZD. The findings have been…

Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans-Ulrich Häring, member of the managing board of the DZD, has been elected a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. In a multi-stage selection process, the Presidium elects members who have been…

Metformin* and SGLT2 inhibitors** together reduce the blood sugar levels considerably more effectively than either drug alone. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research, report in the journal…

The Best Paper Award 2014 of the Journal of Peptide Science goes to scientists of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO) at the DZD site Helmholtz Zentrum München for the article “Restoration of leptin responsiveness in diet-induced obese mice…

The body has different types of adipose tissue that perform various metabolic tasks: white, beige and brown. For the first time, researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, and Harvard Medical School have successfully…

A single molecule may provide hope for millions of people, as researchers have combined two hormones formed in the digestive tract into one novel molecule. This hormone combination acts on the receptors of insulin-stimulating hormones and is thus…

Like every Leibniz institution, the DZD partner, the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) in Düsseldorf, is regularly evaluated by external reviewers, at the latest every seven years. Internationally recognized experts, who are informed by written…

Massive obesity increases the risk for type 2 diabetes. However, not every fat person develops the disease, because the susceptibility for type 2 diabetes in humans is to a substantial part inherited. It is not yet fully understood which gene…

For her research on obesity and diabetes mellitus, Dr. Julia Szendrödi, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Research Center (CRC) unit at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) in Düsseldorf, which is a partner in the DZD, has received the Young Investigator…

Scientists at the DZD partners in Munich and Dresden aim to investigate T-cell mediated immunoreactions involved in type 1 diabetes to find out what processes influence the progress of the disease. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)…

An increase in body weight is accompanied by changes in both the composition of gut microbiota and the pattern of thousands of metabolites. In addition, diabetes appears to influence certain metabolic pathways, such as sulfur metabolism. Scientists…

During the campaign day "Diabetes bewegt uns!" / “Diabetes Challenges Us!” of the Bavarian Ministry of Health on July 12th at Odeonsplatz in Munich, the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) was the point of contact for the interested public and…

Professor Ziegler sums up the research successes of recent years, particularly with regard to early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. The renowned diabetes researcher and director of the Institute of Diabetes Research at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a…

As part of the project “Diabetes at School” of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, Daniel Schnelting, multiple-time German champion in sprint, is training with children of a Düsseldorf elementary school.

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) Presents Itself to the Medical Public

At the Diabetes Conference of the German Diabetes Association (DDG), which took place in Berlin at the end of May, two DZD scientists were awarded prizes. PD Dr. Natalia Rudovich received the Menarini Prize and Dr. Barbara Ludwig received the Ernst…

On June 11th Prof. Tilman Grune will be installed as scientific director of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DifE) by the Brandenburg Minister for Science, Research and Culture, Prof. Sabine Kunst. He thus succeeds Prof.…

The children participating in the initiative "SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit." (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf are completing a training session offered by the Fortuna soccer team…

The German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, invited participants for the sixth time to the Protein Rainbow Workshop in Düsseldorf. This year the participants informed themselves about the latest methods to analyze and separate proteins and…

DZD scientists at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have optimized the Diabetes Risk Test* on the basis of new study data. Together with other colleagues, they published the optimized test in the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical…

The successful development of a new diabetes drug – an SGLT2 inhibitor – from the test tube to the patient was presented in a fascinating lecture by Professor William Washburn at Helmholtz Zentrum München. The lecture was organized by the German…

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference. This meeting will be held on September 21-23, 2014, at the Rilano No. 6 Lenbach Palais in Munich, Germany.

As part of the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.”, the German Diabetes Center in (DDZ) Düsseldorf, a partner in the DZD, organized a fitness breakfast on May 5th for primary school children. This event with the theme of health and exercise…

A collaborative study by an international team of scientists published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that the Notch signaling pathway is essential for the formation of insulin-producing beta…

Data from the Potsdam EPIC* Study have now shown that women who have breastfed have about a 40 percent reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to women who did not breastfeed. Biomarker analyses conducted in the study indicate that…

Prof. William Washburn will present his data on  "Dapagliflozin - from Bench to Bedside" on Friday May 16th, at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Scientists and doctors are invited to join

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For his outstanding work in the field of clinical and experimental research to achieve a better understanding of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes, Prof. Dr. Michael Roden, board member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), has been…

Neuherberg, Germany 28 April 2014. The Paul Martini Foundation is honouring Prof. Dr. Matthias Tschöp, diabetes researcher at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, with this year's Paul Martini Prize. In doing so the foundation, which funds important drug…

Low levels of vitamin D are commonly found in people with type 1 diabetes. But even children who have multiple positive islet autoantibodies without manifest type 1 diabetes have lower levels of vitamin D in their blood. This does not appear,…

People who have parents with type 2 diabetes may have up to a 2.9-fold increased risk for this disease. This is suggested by results of the Potsdam EPIC* study – a large-scale, population-based longitudinal study with more than 27,000 study…

Scientists led by Dr. Hubert Preißl and Prof. Andreas Fritsche of the University Hospital Tübingen and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have currently published a study in "Diabetologia" (Journal of the European Association for the Study…

People with type 2 diabetes who report good self-management behavior have a reduced mortality risk. This was the result of a population-based study conducted by scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München in the context of DZD research fields emphasizing…

On April 9, 2014 the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a partner in the DZD, is organizing an information day for the third time. Current developments in the field of diabetes research and the findings of the German Diabetes Study will be presented. The…

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) provided insights into the latest findings and trends of diabetes research at the 57th Symposium of the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE). Genetic aspects in the development of type 2…