Even before birth, the family sets the course for later eating behavior. But what happens when the cards are reshuffled? Can people change their...

Starting August 1, Prof. Dr. Henrik Semb will head the newly established Institute of Translational Stem Cell Research at the DZD partner Helmholtz...

A contribution of the programme "Gut zu Wissen" by Bayerischer Rundfunk deals with the topic of type 1 diabetes. Prof. Dr. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler,...

In the programme Campus TALKS on 31.07.2018, Prof. Stephan Herzig, Director of the Institute for Diabetes and Cancer at DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum...

Professor Matthias Tschöp, MD, has been appointed the new CEO of DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München. He took over from Professor Günther Wess, who...

Children of mothers with type 1 diabetes are at significantly higher risk of being overweight and of exhibiting insulin resistance. This was published...

The Judo Club 71 offers the elementary school students of the SMS initiative of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center a judo trial training.

Breathlessness and conditions of restrictive lung disease (RLD), such as pulmonary fibrosis, may be a late complication of type 2 diabetes. These are...

New technologies enable deeper insights into the causes of major diseases such as diabetes, obesity or cancer and open the way to a new generation of...

The 6th DZD Diabetes Research School will take place in Berlin from September 29 to October 1, 2018. The School's speakers list includes renowned...

New analyses of the EPIC-Potsdam study show that a Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes even outside the Mediterranean region. In...

Dr. Daniel Markgraf from DZD partner Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum is one of the winners of the newly created iAward from Sanofi. His work on...

High Jump Champion Hendrik Beyer visited the Mosaikschule und and conducted a sports session with children participating in the SMS initiative of the...

Professor Günther Wess was honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit for his many years of service to the scientific location of Munich in general and...

The advanced training course in motor skills training of the Präha Weber School conducts a sensory classroom with the primary school children...

German Research Minister Anja Karliczek and her French colleague Frédérique Vidal initiated a series of measures at the 6th Forum for Franco-German...

DZD board member Professor Martin Hrabĕ de Angelis and Dr. Eckhart von Hirschhausen were the keynote speakers on June 19th at the 40th anniversary...

Overweight and type 2 diabetes are associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Worldwide, about 50 to 75 percent of people with type 2...

As in previous years, the DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institut Dresden (PLID) took part in the Dresden Long Night of Science with its own information...

The primary school children participating in the SMS initiative of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center visit the Central School Garden of the City...

With the Aqua Trampoline, the Düsseldorf municipal swimming pool company offers the children participating in the SMS initiative of the DZD partner...

Diabetes affects large numbers of people in Germany, and complications of the disease make it one of the biggest health challenges facing society. To...

The research team headed by Professor Heiko Lickert has been awarded the Prize for Interdisciplinary Cooperation of the Friends and Supporters...

Fortuna Düsseldorf invites the primary school children participating in the SMS Initiative of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center to the Young...

Women with obesity are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, even if they are considered to be metabolically healthy. Moreover, women of normal...

This year the REWE Team Challenge (RTC) in Dresden celebrated its 10th birthday – runners of the DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute joined in, too....

An international research team in which the DZD is participating has identified a novel adipokine that favors the development of insulin resistance...

Together with the Football Factory, the SMS initiative organized a one-day football camp for the participating primary school children.

Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf Supports the Social Commitment of the SMS Initiative of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center.

Several researchers from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have been selected to receive awards or grants of the German Diabetes Society...

Primary school children participating in the SMS initiative of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center visited the Hercules Bakery.

Dr. Julia Szendrödi, head of the Clinical Study Center at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), was awarded the Ferdinand Bertram Prize at this year's...

In Germany, about half a million people are newly diagnosed with diabetes every year. But how can the disease be treated or even prevented? At the...

The agenda of the 2nd Franco-German Conference on Diabetes Research (April 19-20) contained many exciting elements, including the presentation of...

The "Triangle" smartphone app helps women who developed diabetes during pregnancy adapt to a healthy lifestyle routine. The Test Triangle Study of the...

With over 160 participants, the second German-French Conference on Diabetes Research will take place next week. In addition to leading scientists from...

At the Head Office of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) in Munich, two positions in bioinformatics are to be filled as soon as possible.

Sugar and hidden sugars in food and the consequences of sugar consumption was the subject Prof. Annette Schürmann was interviewd about by Tagesschau...

An international research group headed by scientists from the DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München has developed a method for calculating the risk...

So far, Germany has lacked reliable figures for the comparison of blindness incidence in people with and without diabetes as well as a time-trend...

Dr. Stephanie Kullmann has been awarded the Ernst and Berta Scharrer Prize of the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE) for her research on...

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has elected Professor Matthias Tschöp to the ranks of its 200 ordinary members. According to the...

The “aid” nutrition pilot license program is carried out in the participating primary school classes of the SMS initiative.

The DZD partner Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum Düsseldorf will again offer a mass spectrometry course in 2018. The 10th annual Protein Rainbow Workshop...

As an expert guest in a broadcast of the ZDF TV program moma, DZD speaker Professor Annette Schürmann of the German Institute of Human Nutrition in...

The Düsseldorf Sports Club 1899 invited the primary school children participating in the SMS initiative to a taster hockey training session.

The 2018 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers will be awarded today to Professor Tim Schulz in recognition of his...

One important task of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is to transfer new findings faster and more efficiently into effective diagnosis...

Professor Andreas Fritsche, diabetologist at the DZD partner Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases at Helmholtz Zentrum München at...

KochDichTurkish offered the participating pupils of the SMS initiative a cooking course for kids.

Udo Hempel highlights the fascination of sports in a talk to primary school children participating in the SMS initiative.

More and more employers are offering their employees support services to promote health at the workplace. Together with the Regional Innovation...

Scientists have identified a network of genes that could play an important role in the development of metabolic diseases such as diabetes. A research...

At an event marking the third anniversary of the establishment of the Regional Innovation Network (RIN) Diabetes, around 80 invited guests and...

As we are approaching the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin, a wide array of its signaling pathways has been defined. However, the initial...

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München have investigated methylation patterns of risk genes for type 1 diabetes. In the ‘Journal of Autoimmunity’...

More than 100 genes are involved in the development of type 2 diabetes. But not only the genes, but also nutrition play a role in the development of...

On April 19-20, 2018 the second German-French Conference on Diabetes Research will take place at the French Embassy in Berlin. It continues the...

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have examined health insurance data of more than 300,000 people with diabetes in Germany. Their report,...

Professor Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, director of the Institute of Diabetes Research at the DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München has been awarded an...

Men with type 2 diabetes are less likely to develop prostate cancer than patients without diabetes. However, the mortality rate is higher. Researchers...

Professor Tim J. Schulz of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) will be awarded the internationally renowned Paul Ehrlich...

Compared to eight other diets, the Mediterranean diet is best suited to improve blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes. This is the...

Dr. Maren Carstensen-Kirberg, research associate at the DZD partner German Diabetes Center (DDZ), has been awarded the Dr. Eickelberg Foundation Prize...

At the Head Office of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) in Munich, a position as assistant is to be filled as soon as possible.

The Glomm Bakery and Pastry Shop and Fortuna Düsseldorf Clubhaus Bar95 support the SMS initiative.

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München have discovered a mechanism that amplifies the autoimmune reaction in an early stage of pancreatic islet...

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

When proteins misfold, accumulate and clump in insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, they can kill these cells. Now, researchers at the DZD partner...

Around 6.5 million people in Germany have diabetes. Thus, Germany ranks second in Europe in the number of cases of the disease. The German Diabetes...

The primary school children participating in the initiative "SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center completed a...

In Germany, more than 6.5 million people have diabetes, most of them type 2. Of these, an estimated 800,000 people also suffer from a depression that...

During the occupational health weeks at Hugo Boss in Baden-Württemberg, the DZD provided information on the prevention of type 2 diabetes at various...

Every two years the University of Toronto nominates a speaker to deliver the prestigious Charles H. Best Lecture, and presents a corresponding award....

Professor Norbert Stefan from the DZD Partner Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases at the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the...

Around one million people with type 2 diabetes currently live in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, there is a high number of unreported cases....

Even people with a healthy lifestyle and who exercise regularly can suffer from diabetes. What is the reason for this?

On World Diabetes Day on November 14th, the Hessian Radio 2 program "Der Tag" focused on the topic of type 1 diabetes. Dr. Peter Achenbach from the...

Women with diabetes have an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Studies from the German Diabetes Center show that the risk of stroke...

Worldwide, there are about 415 million people with diabetes. In Germany alone, more than 6.7 million people have the disease, and up to 500,000 people...

In Germany, nationwide data on mortality attributable to diagnosed diabetes are not available. Researchers at the DZD partner German Diabetes Center...

Dr. Bengt-Frederik Belgardt, deputy director of the Institute for Beta Cell Biology at the German Diabetes Center (Deutsches Diabetes Zentrum, DDZ), a...

Obesity leads to the release of cytokines into the bloodstream which impact the metabolism of breast cancer cells, making them more aggressive as a...

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) at TU Dresden have developed a bioreactor that secretes insulin.

Research Team with DZD Participation Reports Successful Pig-Islet Xenotransplantation without Immunosuppression

For the first time, the DZD offers a joint advanced training course for young scientists of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG): "Translating...

Nutrition, exercise, therapy, technologies, diabetes in childhood and adolescence, and diabetes complications: On Saturday September 30, 2017,...

When referee legend Walter Eschweiler, cult reporter Werner Hansch,"Euro Fighter" Ingo Anderbrügge, the honorary captain of Fortuna Düsseldorf Gerd...

Children between five and ten years old are invited to a “Door Opener Day” with the mouse on October 3rd from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. The DZD partner Paul...

The Potsdam-based diabetes researcher Professor Hans-Georg Joost, founding member and board member of diabetesDE - German Diabetes Aid, ombudsperson...

The initiative "SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center invited the participating primary schools to the...

Dr. Nikolay Ninov, group leader at the DFG research center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden, and...

On Saturday, Sept. 23, the University Medical Center in Tuebingen is going to host the 2017 Patients' Day Diabetes organized by...

On September 19, 2017, the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), a DZD partner institute, will celebrate its 25th anniversary...

Worldwide nearly one in three individuals is obese. The consequence: More and more people suffer from diseases associated with morbid overweight such...

The current annual report of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is available online as download.

Immunosuppressive regulatory T-cells play an important role in the functioning of adipose tissue. This is the discovery of scientists from the...

For the first time, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will award the Carus Medal to a diabetes researcher. This year’s award will go...

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the German Obesity Society (DAG) will take place in Potsdam (Griebnitzsee Campus) from September 28th-30th. Experts from...

There is a direct link between malaria during pregnancy and the later occurrence of metabolic traits in the offspring. These include impaired glucose...

Brown adipose tissue is considered an interesting target for the treatment of obesity or type 2 diabetes. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum...

The DZD researcher Andreas Müller has been selected to receive this year’s award of the German Society for Electron Microscopy (DGE). The award will...

In mice that are given a high-fat diet, an increased production of the enzyme DPP4* by the liver promotes an increase in body fat, the development of...

One in four patients in a university hospital suffers from diabetes (22 percent), and again as many suffer from prediabetes (24 percent). These were...

The consensus among scientists until now has been that overweight people have an increased risk for diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure and heart...

Inflammatory processes in the liver lead to elevated cholesterol levels in people with diabetes, thus promoting subsequent vascular diseases. This is...

Compared to people who are of normal weight and metabolically healthy, subjects who are of normal weight but metabolically unhealthy (~20% of normal...

An afternoon with focus on diabetes. The DZD partner PLID and the CRTD hosted a joint event in the program of the TU Dresden Summer University.

The school children participating in the initiative "SMS. Be smart. Join In. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center gain insight into the...

Diabetes mellitus has become a major disease worldwide. In Germany alone almost one in ten people suffer from the metabolic disease. At the 2017...

For the fifth time, the 'Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference' will attract numerous top international researchers to Munich. The event,...

Infections during infancy are associated with increased risk for gluten intolerance (celiac disease) later on. Apparently the risk is particularly...

The new Biennial Report 2015-2016 of the DZD partner German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) can now be accessed online or in a...

The initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center has joined up with the project “Wanted: Sandlot Football...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.” of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center gain insight into the lives...

Dr. Anja Zeigerer is head of the young investigator group Endocytosis & Metabolism at the Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC) of the DZD partner...

Nowadays it is not always easy to reconcile work, family and one’s private life. However, employers have a variety of solutions at their disposal to...

As in previous years, the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) participated again with its own information booth at the 15th Long Night of Science...

How well do diabetes tattoos measure blood glucose? Can they actually simplify the daily life of diabetes patients? DZD scientist Professor Andreas...

Current translational research is the main theme of the latest issue of the journal Diabetes aktuell. Für die Hausarztpraxis. Without exception, all...

Insulin in the brain may help regulate the hunger sensation and improve functional connectivity in certain cognitive brain regions. This is the...

Renowned professors from German and Danish research institutions will give young scientists insight into how epidemiological research approaches...

Professor Annette Schürmann, Dr. Stefan Kabisch and Dr. Gisela Olias of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, a DZD partner, were...

Type 2 diabetes causes pathological changes in the beta cells. Scientists have successfully depicted the processes on the basis of the metabolome and...

We made it! After these five kilometers, there was no stopping. Arms were pulled up, selfies were taken or simply high fives were given. On June 1st,...

Each year between 300,000 and 500,000 people in Germany are newly diagnosed with diabetes. In an interview at the Diabetes Congress, Professor Martin...

Under the title “500,000 New Diagnoses - The Diabetes Epidemic”, the German public radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk reported in its medical program...

A DZD study on mice and humans shows that a single high-fat meal can have negative metabolic consequences and promote type 2 diabetes. In Germany...

Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers: The three nightshade plants originally come from Central and South America. Nowadays however, depending on the...

The German Diabetes Association (DDG) will honor several researchers of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) at the DDG Congress in Hamburg...

Professor Andreas Pfeiffer of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE), a DZD partner, was featured as expert in the program...

At the preliminary press conference for the Diabetes Congress of the German Diabetes Association (DDG) on May 17th in Berlin, translational diabetes...

More than 230 scientists from 25 different countries and with expertise in beta cell research attended last week the Joint Meeting of the EASD Islet...

More than 80 young scientists from all over the world informed themselves about the current status of diabetes research at the DZD Diabetes Research...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be Smart. Join In. Be Fit.” of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf earn their...

To estimate dietary fiber intake, researchers have previously depended on study participants’ self-reports of their dietary habits. Now scientists...

Diabetes mellitus has become a major health problem throughout the world. In Germany alone almost one in ten people suffers from the metabolic...

In sunny but windy weather, two relay teams of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center took part on Sunday, April 30th, in the Metro Group Marathon in...

"Is there more to fasting than being hungry?" was the subject of the ARTE program Xenius on April 24th. Professor Stephan Herzig, director of the...

Since March 2017, TMF’s Health Research Tool Pool has been bundling IT tools and information to build data infrastructures in medical research. The...

About 3,000 people took to the streets in Munich on April 22nd to demonstrate for a free science. The DZD participated with an information stand at...

Brown adipose tissue is considered a pharmacologically interesting target structure to treat obesity. When the "good" brown fat is activated, the...

On April 5, 2017 members of the Potsdam self-help group (insulin pump users, people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes) of the German Diabetic...

The award-winners of the Hansen Family Award 2017 have been named: Professor Jens Brüning and Professor Matthias H. Tschöp are this year’s recipients...

The initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center received an award from “We for Düsseldorf".

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the German Diabetes Center experience an introductory training...

The Science Information Service (Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e. V. (idw)) has recognized the press release “Overweight Affects DNA Methylation”...

How does type 2 diabetes develop? A team of researchers headed by the DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich has...

Scientists of the DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) plan to localize risk factors for type 2 diabetes via geocoding services. Now they have...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center completed a ‘taster’ training...

A new study led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), shows that gliptins –...

There is a widespread discussion among the actors in the German health care system about costs, challenges and the future. Researchers of the DZD...

Many people with elevated blood glucose levels or undiagnosed diabetes underestimate their probability of having or developing diabetes. This is the...

According to a nutrition study led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner of the German Center for Diabetes Research, the...

In Germany, some six million people suffer from diabetes, and in addition around 270,000 new cases of the disease are reported each year. The German...

Diabetes affects many people in Germany and is one of the greatest health challenges for society due to its secondary health issues. In order to...

A new understanding of cellular mechanisms occurring in babies having a high risk of developing type 1 diabetes was introduced by DZD researchers from...

Fr1da, Fr1dolin, Freder1k – these new screening tests for the early detection of type 1 diabetes in Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Saxony have one thing in...

The association Sportwerk Düsseldorf invited children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German...

The global proliferation of overweight and obese people and people with type 2 diabetes is often associated with the consumption of saturated fats....

The University of Leipzig today awarded Professor Matthias Tschöp an honorary doctorate. Tschöp is director of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity...

Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will be funding the new "PancChip" consortium for the next three years. This group will be...

The health initiative of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center (DDZ) “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.” leads to improved motor skills in the...

How can patients participate in research projects? How can health information be prepared in an understandable way? These questions were discussed by...

The endogenous enzyme ACE* plays a major role in blood pressure regulation. As a twin study led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a...

Many people with diabetes must inject insulin several times a day throughout their lives. However, after many years, this treatment may no longer lead...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and consequences...

C-reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive marker for subclinical inflammation. In Genome Biology, an international consortium has now reported that...

Marcel Blumensatt, a young scientist at the DZD partner institute German Diabetes Center (DDZ), has received the Dr. Eickelberg Foundation Prize 2016....

On the NDR TV program “Visite”, Professor Annette Schürmann, DZD speaker and head of the Department of Experimental Diabetology at the German...

Mice with a strong tendency to obesity already exhibit epigenetic changes at six weeks of age, inducing the liver to amplify its production of the...

The extra pounds you gain during the holidays will not only show up on your hips but will also affect your DNA. This is the result of a large-scale...

More than half the adult population in Germany is overweight, and the number of people classified as obese has even increased in recent years. But...

The initiative“SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit” of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center raises primary school children’s awareness of the benefits of...

Starting in December, the Reutlingen County Health Department is offering diabetes prevention consultations in collaboration with the German Center...

November 14th is World Diabetes Day. In order to draw attention to the metabolic disease and its consequences, numerous actions are taking place...

In the ZDF program “Volle Kanne” on World Diabetes Day, November 14th, the DZD scientists PD Dr. Andreas Lechner of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität...

On the occasion of World Diabetes Day, Dr. Peter Achenbach of the Institute for Diabetes Research of the DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München was an...

A key genetic switch in the liver regulates glucose metabolism and insulin action in other organs of the body. Researchers of DZD partner Helmholtz...

Certain proteins in the blood of children can predict incipient type 1 diabetes, even before the first symptoms appear. A team of scientists at the...

A predisposition to obesity and diabetes, induced by a faulty diet, can be epigenetically inherited, according to DZD scientists led by Professor...

A segment of the TV program “Frontal 21” on November 1, 2016 focused on the topic "Sugar-Coated Health Risk – The Tricks of the Sugar Industry"....

Two million people in Germany have diabetes without knowing it - and there are almost 1,000 new cases every day. In conjunction with World Diabetes...

According to a new nutritional study conducted by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) on individuals with type 2 diabetes, high-protein...

In type 1 diabetes, the body attacks its own insulin-producing cells. Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the German Center for...

The 4th Diabetes Patients’ Day of the Diabetes Information Service of Helmholtz Zentrum München offered information regarding the diagnosis, treatment...

Information about the widespread diseases diabetes, cancer and dementia generated much interest among the 450,000 guests who attended the German Unity...

The current annual report of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is available online as download.

Scientists of DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München have developed a ‘smart’ drug that safely clears the liver of...

Nasturtium, which is also known as a medicinal plant, contains mustard oil compounds which are noticeable when eaten by their sharp taste. As a joint...

In the development of obesity and diabetes, signals from the brain play an important role. Here an important neurotransmitter is dopamine. DZD...

At the 4th DZD Diabetes Research School in September more than 80 young scientists from all over the world informed themselves about the current...

On September 19^th  Professor Heiko Lickert, director of the Institute for Diabetes and Regeneration Research at Helmholtz Zentrum München, was on air...

Telephone Campaign of "Münchner Merkur" on September 16: Diabetes Experts Answer Readers’ Questions

Results of various population studies suggest that people who drink lots of coffee have a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. However, this apparently...

On World Children’s Day on September 20, 2016, the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the German Diabetes Center, a DZD partner, will...

Being overweight or obese is often associated with chronic inflammation, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and...

Diabetes now affects one in 11 adults. But how high is the personal risk of developing diabetes? What treatment options are there? Can the disease be...

The most frequently prescribed oral antidiabetic drug metformin significantly affects metabolic pathways. This was reported by scientists from the...

In the next few days, Munich will be the focal point of diabetes research. From September 11-20, 2016 a series of events will take place for an...

Exposure to air pollution at the place of residence increases the risk of developing insulin resistance as a pre-diabetic state of type 2 diabetes....

Apfelparadies Wittlaer (Apple Paradise Wittlaer) supports the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.” of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center...

In the broadcast on August 29th of the TV program "Food Check with Tim Mälzer" the TV chef discussed the issue of how much sugar is good for us. The...

“How can I tell if I have diabetes? Does coffee protect against cardiovascular disease and diabetes? What is fatty liver?” – These were some of the...

The DZD scientists Prof. Dr. Ezio Bonifacio, director of the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden of TU Dresden, and Prof. Dr. Anette-Gabriele...

Researchers at the German Center for Diabetes Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München discovered that our brain actively takes sugar from the blood....

Antibody tests can detect the early stages of type I diabetes in affected children, even before the first symptoms of the disease occur. Researchers...

An interdisciplinary team of DZD scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München has studied the metabolism of women with gestational diabetes after...

With more than six million people affected by the disease in Germany, diabetes has become a growing health concern. From September 11–20, 2016...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is inviting young scientists to apply for 10 postdoc positions in translational diabetes research at its...

With more than 400 million people affected, diabetes represents a steadily increasing challenge to world health. Through his outstanding work in the...

The largest study of its kind into type 2 diabetes has produced the most detailed picture to date of the genetics underlying the condition. Among...

It is widely accepted that physical exercise lowers the risk of developing diabetes. Yet in one in five participants in related studies this positive...

The marker Flattop subdivides the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas into those that maintain glucose metabolism and into immature cells...

The WDR television series "Quarks & Co." will feature the topic of epigenetics on July 5th. A program with the DZD scientists Prof. Johannes Beckers...

A team of DZD researchers has developed a new method of predicting the early stages of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Their findings, published in the...

The German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has updated the online version of its German Diabetes Risk Score® and has optimized it for mobile...

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research have shown in an animal model that bezafibrate influences type 1 diabetes positively. The...

As in recent years, the DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) participated actively with an information booth at the 14. Long Night of...

German TV broadcasters invited scientists from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) to be guests on their programs to answer questions about...

Sports as diabetes prevention is a longtime known fact. Scientists from DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) put this into practice...

Saxony’s Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich visited the Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD) at the end of May to receive a first-hand update,...

DZD-Scientists Present their Research Results at the ADA’s Diabetes CongressThis year the 76th scientific sessions of the American Diabetes...

Epidemiologists at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a partner of the DZD, have analyzed data of 65 million people with statutory health insurance...

KochDichTürkisch invited children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center to take...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded a follow-up grant worth more than EUR 15 million for a research program on xenotransplantation, which...

Fortuna Düsseldorf offered a soccer training session to children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner...

The Regional Innovation Network (RIN) Diabetes of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center has been awarded the certificate “Place of Progress NRW 2016”...

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have shown in a mouse model that the...

Prediabetes is associated with increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia and cancer. However, the disease risk considerably varies...

Professor Michael Roden, director and chairman of the board of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and member of the board of the DZD, has been awarded...

The initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center Düsseldorf, together with the Präha Weber School, invited...

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München have new information on what happens at the molecular level when we go hungry. Working with the Deutsches...

Under the motto “Diabetology – Interdisciplinary”, the Diabetes Congress 2016 of the German Diabetes Society (DDG) is currently taking place (May 4-7,...

Viral respiratory infections during the first six months of life are associated with an increased risk for type 1 diabetes. This is the conclusion...

A ‘step-counting competition’ has been launched using digital pedometers to raise teen awareness for getting enough regular physical activity: That is...

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is promoting the cooperation of researchers between the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a DZD partner, and...

The 122nd Congress of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) convened from April 9 – 12, 2016 under the theme “Demographic Change Needs...

Sponsors of the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center give the participating children insight into...

This year’s World Health Day on April 7th focused on diabetes. Experts of the DZD were featured both at the kick-off event at the German Diabetes...

Major widespread diseases are the focus of the German Centers of Health Research (DZG), which are funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and...

Bundestag member Dietrich Monstadt (CDU) praised the thematic focus of this year’s World Health Day in his address at a press conference, saying it...

Dr. Tim Julius Schulz has accepted the joint appointment of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at the University of Potsdam and the DZD...

Professor Dan Ziegler, deputy director of the Institute for Clinical Diabetology at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a DZD partner, has been awarded...

On March 5th, the 2nd Middle German Diabetes Day was hosted by the DZD Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) of Helmholtz Zentrum München at the...

DZD scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with Technische Universität München, have shown in a preclinical model that specifically...

DZD scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with researchers from Technical University of Munich, have shown that diet-induced...

Dietary factors play an important role in the prevention of diabetes mellitus. While whole grain and fiber-rich foods, coffee, low-fat dairy products...

On the occasion of Healthy Nutrition Day on March 7, 2016, the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.” of the German Diabetes Center, a DZD...

At the 2nd Middle German Diabetes Day (2. Mitteldeutscher Diabetestag) on Saturday, March 5th, scientists of the DZD will hold talks and answer...

A team of researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technische Universität München and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) has identified a...

On Tuesday, February 23rd, Düsseldorf’s mayor Thomas Geisel officially launched CHECK! 2016, a fitness project for Düsseldorf primary schools. Third...

Children participating in the initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) of the German Diabetes Center,...

Sofiya M. Gancheva, a clinical studies physician at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a DZD partner, is this year’s recipient of the Karl Oberdisse...

Like sucrose (table sugar), the natural disaccharide isomaltulose (PalatinoseTM) consists of glucose and fructose, but it is apparently more suitable...

On February 2, 2016, Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabĕ de Angelis was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tübingen.

Scientists at the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the Harvard School of Public Health describe the relationship of the worldwide...

In a new study on mice reported in Diabetes, scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by Andreas Pfeiffer of the German...

Düsseldorf’s largest sports club, the SFD ’75, supports the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the German Diabetes Center, a partner in...

Prof. Dr. Michael Roden, scientific director and executive board member of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and head of the Department of...

On March 5th, the DZD partner Paul Langerhans Institute of Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden (PLID)...

Hendrik Beyer is active in the health initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center Düsseldorf at primary...

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

The initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, seeks to motivate the participating children to...

Diabetes is on the rise. On November 25, 2015 high-ranking representatives from the political arena, science and the economy discussed in the German...

In the “Best Hospitals List 2016” of the news magazine “Focus”, partners, associated partners and project partners of the German Center for Diabetes...

On World Diabetes Day on November 14th, landmark buildings across the globe will be lit up in blue. In Germany the Brandenburg Gate, the Munich...

On November 4, 2015, the Forschungsverbund Berlin will award the Young Female Scientist Award, which is endowed with EUR 3000, to Dr. Kristin...

The initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." of the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, seeks to motivate the participating children to...

In a newly published study, researchers led by Professor Hubert Preissl and Professor Andreas Fritsche of the German Center for Diabetes Research,...

Gestational diabetes is one of the most common conditions that can occur during pregnancy. Although the symptoms generally disappear after delivery,...

At the 31st annual meeting of the German Obesity Society (DAG) in Berlin on October 15-17, 2015, researchers of the German Center for Diabetes...

On October 15-17, 2015 more than 500 experts will meet at the 31st annual meeting of the German Obesity Society (DAG) in the Urania in Berlin in order...

The new Study Center of the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) was officially opened in a festive ceremony on October 6,...

This year’s media prize of the foundation RUFZEICHEN GESUNDHEIT! [Call Sign Health] in the category Radio/TV was awarded to the TV program “Diabetes –...

In the “Prediabetes Lifestyle Intervention Study (PLIS)” of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), researchers are currently investigating...

Neuherberg, 30.09.2015. Our body consistently adjusts its energy management to changes in the supply of nutrients or physical activity. Malfunctioning...

A vaccination against type 1 diabetes will soon also be available to young children: the Pre-POINTearly vaccination study will involve children...

Despite all achievements and progress in the treatment of diabetes, our health system faces major challenges in view of demographic trends....

The 3rd Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference, held at Lenbach Palais in Munich from September 19 to 21, 2015, followed on seamlessly from...

The DZD draws attention to the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Nominations for outstanding women scientists from the field of Life Sciences can be...

In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the study of molecular genetic mechanisms of endocrine and metabolic diseases the Schering...

Chemiker, Molekularbiologen und Mediziner haben sich am Deutschen Diabetes-Zentrum (DDZ) über die neuesten Verfahren im Bereich der Bioanalytik...

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) are well represented in the presentation and poster program of the 51st Annual Meeting of...

Within the framework of a cooperative project funded by the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), a team of scientists led by Annette Schürmann...

In August 2014 an interdisciplinary team of experts at Dresden University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus implanted approximately 220,000 endogenous islet...

At the FutureNight event of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on September 8, 2015, around 200 guests discussed the question...

A study of scientists at DZD partner Helmholtz Zentrum München and Joslin Diabetes Center examines how bacterial and mammalian genomics interact to...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit." led by DZD Professor Karsten Müssig had the opportunity to learn about...

In the largest multinational analysis of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in pediatric type 1 diabetes patients DZD scientists found in cooperation with...

The Annual Report 2014 of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) has been published.

Findings of a current study have for the first time specified in more detail which patients with pancreatic tumors that develop hyperglycemia and...

Besides affecting the blood sugar levels, the substance Metformin, also has an impact on blood fat levels. This was elucidated by an interdisciplinary...

Neuherberg, 31. Juli 2015. The role of over 300 genes has been revealed by DZD scientists in cooperation with colleagues across Europe in a major...

At the 2015 annual meeting of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) in Nuremberg in July, the symposium “New Insights into Stress...

John Andrew Todd, Professor of Medical Genetics and Director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at the Cambridge Institute for Medical...

The German Liver Foundation has awarded Professor Stephan Herzig, director of the Institute for Diabetes and Cancer at the DZD partner Helmholtz...

Ghanaians who suffer from high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes have comparatively higher levels of the vitamin A marker retinol in their blood than...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.“ (Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) were invited to take part in a...

Dr. Maren Carstensen-Kirberg, a young researcher at the German Diabetes Center Düsseldorf, has been awarded the MTZ Award 2015 of the University of...

As in previous years, the 3rd Diabetes Patients’ Day on June 20, 2015 attracted great interest. This time, the event was organized by the Diabetes...

Personalized approaches in prevention and therapy are becoming an increasingly important focus in medicine. How can patients receive better treatment,...

The current program of “Das Diabetes TV” contains a live broadcast with a report from the largest national diabetes congress with representatives of...

The primary schoolchildren participating in the initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) baked bread...

The new Annual Report for 2013-2014 of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) is now online. The report provides information...

Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut of Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, is this year’s recipient of the Friedmund...

Children participating in the initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) took part in a training...

As numerous observational studies have shown, people who eat a lot of red meat have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The causes for this risk...

On June 5-9, 2015, the 75th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) will take place in Boston. More than 14,000 diabetes...

The new president of the German Diabetes Society (DDG) is Professor Baptist Gallwitz, MD, deputy director of Medical Clinic IV of the University of...

For his research on the role of adipose tissue in the pathogenesis of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes Professor Matthias Blüher has been...

Scientists from Düsseldorf have shown that excessive fat burning causes a stress response in the liver, which explains the connection between obesity,...

The DZD presented its translational research in Berlin: Which new forms of diabetes prevention and treatment will benefit patients in the future? What...

The newest print newsletter of the DZD, DZD-News 1/2015, is also available online.

A new unit for diabetes clinical trials at Heidelberg University Hospital shall help to elucidate the pathogenesis and course of diabetes mellitus and...

On April 28, 2015, Bernd Sibler, State Secretary of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Research, and the Arts, together...

The German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke (DIfE) , a member of the DZD, is expanding its spectrum of research on aging to include a...

DZD Board Member Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabě de Angelis has been elected president of the renowned International Mammalian Genome Society (IMGS). The IMGS...

Scientists from the DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, TU Dresden and the Institute of Diabetes Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München,...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.” led by DZD scientist Prof. Karsten Müssig took part in a basketball...

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...

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...

On April 14, 2015 the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf (DDZ), a partner in the DZD, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Hermann Gröhe, Federal...

The Diabetesinformationsdienst München (Diabetes Information Service Munich) of Helmholtz Zentrum München will host its 3rd Diabetes Patients’ Day at...

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...

According to a study by a research team led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), intermittent fasting reduces the amount of harmful...

The adverse health effects caused by fine particles have been known for some time. In addition, ultrafine particles appear to play a significant role...

The children participating in the initiative “SMS. Be smart. Join in. Be fit.”, developed by the DZD scientist Professor Karsten Müssig, trained in...

On March 16-18, 2015 more than 100 novice and established islet cell researchers gathered together in Bremen to present and discuss the latest...

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...

Dextromethorphan, an active ingredient in many nonprescription cough-suppressant drugs, improves blood glucose levels in patients with type 2...

Prof. Günther Wess, Scientific Director of Helmholtz Zentrum München (a research partner of the DZD) discusses obstacles and success factors of...

The proportion of overweight people is steadily rising in Germany, leading to an increase in the number of patients later diagnosed with...

Preventive measures are an important element in combating diabetes. But which measures lead to success? At the DZD site in Tübingen, more than one...

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...

There are many reasons why people gain different amounts of weight and why fat becomes stored in different parts of their bodies. Now researchers,...

Düsseldorf elementary school children participating in the initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.)...

The Abatacept study is pursuing a promising new approach for the prevention of type 1 diabetes. The drug Abatacept shows promise in suppressing the...

For his many years of research on the pathophysiology, diagnostics, and clinical treatment of diabetic neuropathies Prof. Dr. med. Dan Ziegler, deputy...

From February 5-7, 2015, diabetes researchers and clinicians met for an interdisciplinary exchange in Düsseldorf. There, the 20th Annual Meeting of...

On May 20, 2015, on the occasion of the visit of the Danish Crown Prince Couple, a Danish-Bavarian dialogue on politically sustainable diabetes...

On February 2, 2015 a Parliamentary Evening took place in Berlin for all German Centres for Health Research (DZG). State secretary Thomas Rachel gave...

Children participating in the Düsseldorf initiative “SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit.” (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.) earn their...

InnoLife has been selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for EIT...

One country by itself cannot solve the challenges of the increasing incidence of diabetes throughout the world. This was the consensus of the...

Professor Anette-Gabriele Ziegler has been awarded the 8th Annual Dr. Michael Brownlee Visiting Professor Lectureship in Diabetes Research of 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...

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...

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...

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...

Researchers at Tübingen University Hospital showed last year that the concomitant presence of elevated fetuin-A and fatty acid levels increased the...

A new substance that unifies the action profiles of three gastrointestinal hormones lowers the blood sugar level and reduces body fat considerably...

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...

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...

Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut, head of the Young Investigator Group Molecular Endocrinology at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, has...

Individuals who suffer from a variety of unspecific somatic symptoms have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The symptom complex is thus...

The metabolic disorder diabetes mellitus and degenerative diseases of the nervous system may have one and the same cause. This discovery was made by...

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...

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...

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...

On World Diabetes Day, which takes place every year on November 14th, iconic buildings throughout the world are illuminated with blue light. The...

The Düsseldorf primary school children participating in the initiative "SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit." (in English: Be smart. Join in. Be fit.)...

The Helmholtz Zentrum München – in conjunction with the Bavarian State Ministry of Public Health and Care Services and other cooperation partners –...

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

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...

Scientists at the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, have elucidated a previously unknown mechanism in the pathogenesis of the metabolic...

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...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) together with the other five German Centers for Health Research (DZG) and the Federal Ministry for...

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...

After the Training & Education Board of the DZD had selected the award winners for 2013 last spring, the young researchers received their awards...

The 2nd Annual Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference, held at Rilano No. 6 Lenbach Palais in Munich September 21st to 23rd, 2014, seamlessly...

On September 27, 2014 the German Diabetes Centre, a partner in the DZD, the Düsseldorf diabetologists and the North Rhine-Westphalian state...

Vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices contain many phytochemicals. As a research team led by physician Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer of the German Institute...

Selective insulin action in certain brain areas improves glucose metabolism throughout the body. This is a finding of a study by scientists at the...

What are the consequences of permanently elevated blood glucose levels on a molecular level? The BMBF-funded research project EpiGlyko - The...

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...

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...

Metformin* and SGLT2 inhibitors** together reduce the blood sugar levels considerably more effectively than either drug alone. Scientists from the...

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...

The body has different types of adipose tissue that perform various metabolic tasks: white, beige and brown. For the first time, researchers at the...

A single molecule may provide hope for millions of people, as researchers have combined two hormones formed in the digestive tract into one novel...

Like every Leibniz institution, the DZD partner, the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) in Düsseldorf, is regularly evaluated by external reviewers, at the...

Massive obesity increases the risk for type 2 diabetes. However, not every fat person develops the disease, because the susceptibility for type 2...

For her research on obesity and diabetes mellitus, Dr. Julia Szendrödi, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Research Center (CRC) unit at the German...

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...

An increase in body weight is accompanied by changes in both the composition of gut microbiota and the pattern of thousands of metabolites. In...

During the campaign day "Diabetes bewegt uns!" / “Diabetes Challenges Us!” of the Bavarian Ministry of Health on July 12th at Odeonsplatz in Munich,...

Professor Ziegler sums up the research successes of recent years, particularly with regard to early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. The renowned...

As part of the project “Diabetes at School” of the DZD partner German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, Daniel Schnelting, multiple-time German champion...

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...

On June 11th Prof. Tilman Grune will be installed as scientific director of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DifE) by the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A collaborative study by an international team of scientists published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

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...

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

For his outstanding work in the field of clinical and experimental research to achieve a better understanding of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes,...

Neuherberg, Germany 28 April 2014. The Paul Martini Foundation is honouring Prof. Dr. Matthias Tschöp, diabetes researcher at the Helmholtz Zentrum...

Low levels of vitamin D are commonly found in people with type 1 diabetes. But even children who have multiple positive islet autoantibodies without...

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...

Scientists led by Dr. Hubert Preißl and Prof. Andreas Fritsche of the University Hospital Tübingen and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)...

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...

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...

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) provided insights into the latest findings and trends of diabetes research at the 57th...

The interactions of the gut microbiota in children with typical diabetes autoantibodies differ from that in healthy children. The fact that these...

Patients with LADA – a form of autoimmune type 1 diabetes in adulthood – can be distinguished from patients with non-autoimmune type 2 diabetes by...

Diagnosis of type 1 diabetes is preceded by the appearance of pancreatic islet cell autoantibodies circulating in the blood. Scientists of Helmholtz...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) presented itself to Japanese diabetes scientists as point of contact for an international exchange about...

In the current issue of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the University Hospital of...

The European Research Commission will fund the interdisciplinary project “Nudge-it” with nine million euros. DZD scientists from Tübingen are among...

Dr. Claudia Wiza, a young researcher at the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, has been awarded the Dr. Eickelberg Foundation Prize 2013....

In its TV series “Gesundheit (Health)” on January 28, 2014, Bavarian Radio included a feature about non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In the...

A grant of 6 million euros for the HumEn project brings together leading European stem cell-research groups and industrial partners in a coordinated...

DZD scientists Decipher Early Molecular Mechanisms of Differentiation: The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and microRNA 335 are instrumental in...

Die Klinische Kooperationsgruppe „Subklassifikation von Typ 2 Diabetes“ erhielt Ende letzten Jahres für die Studie PPS-Diab (Prediction, Prevention...

Warum erkranken manche Menschen an Krebs, andere nicht? Wer ist anfällig für Altersdiabetes? Viele Krankheiten sind eng mit unserer DNA gekoppelt;...

A single molecule, which acts equally on the receptors of the metabolic hormones glucagon and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) improves body weight and...

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

Upon the initiative of academy member Professor Ivan I. Dedov, president of the Russian Academy of Medical Science (RAMS), and Professor Helmut Hahn,...

“Type-1-diabetes: is it possible to delay the disease?” was the title of the report on Bavarian television’s science show „Gesundheit“ („Health“) on...

The Annual Report 2012 of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) has been published.

Professor Sabine von Schorlemer, Minister of the Saxon Ministry of Science and Art, visited the diabetes research center, the Paul Langerhans...

On World Diabetes Day, November 14th, distinctive buildings shall be lit up in blue in various locations in Germany. The German Center for Diabetes...

Each year 36 million people across the globe die of noninfectious diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Common risk factors...

In the current issue of the scientific journal ‘Nature’ researchers suggest that the brain has an important impact on maintaining blood glucose...

Five internationally renowned scientists gave graduate students and postdocs from around the world insight into the latest results and trends in...

The sensitivity of the GLP-1 hormone, which is secreted by the gastrointestinal tract, can predict the metabolic efficacy of a gastric bypass. The use...

On November 12, 2013, the State of Brandenburg will present the Brandenburg Young Scientist Award to the best young researchers of the year. The award...

A diet that is low in sugar-sweetened beverages, processed meat and white bread is associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. This is the...

Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU), a partner in the DZD, and the Technische Universität München (TUM), together with scientists in...

High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), the so-called “good“ cholesterol improves blood glucose levels by enhancing skeletal muscle function and...

In two comprehensive studies, scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU), a partner in the DZD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)...

Diabetes researchers at Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden, a partner of the German Center for Diabetes Research, have implanted the...

The results of a large-scale longitudinal observational study suggest that people with diabetes do not require different dietary and lifestyle...

The joint diabetes conference of Helmholtz Zentrum München,a partner in the DZD, and Nature Medicine, which took place September 22-24, was a great...

Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati, USA, have discovered that the...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) presented itself extensively at the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of...

Damage to the retina due to diabetes can be ameliorated only partially, despite treatment with the standard drug metformin. Scientists of Helmholtz...

Around 150 experts from academia and industry convened on September 18th, 2013 in Lund, Sweden at the IDEA Summit (Innovation in Diabetes: European...

Metabolic syndrome is characterized by obesity, high blood pressure, disturbed lipid metabolism and insulin resistance of body cells. People who...

Through the detection of islet autoantibodies, type 1 diabetes can often be diagnosed years before the onset of the autoimmune disease. In many cases,...

Professor Dr. Matthias Tschöp has been elected a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. In a multi-stage selection...

Funded by the DZD, the DiMelli study examines the different phenotypes of diabetes mellitus in relation to their immunological, metabolic and genetic...

Metabolically healthy obesity – where an individual has a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30, but does not appear to be at increased risk of the...

Current methods of bioanalysis were the focus of the fifth Protein Rainbow Workshop at the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf. At the international...

In recognition of her significant clinical research in the field of type 1 diabetes, Prof. Dr. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler of Helmholtz Zentrum München, a...

A study involving more than 8,000 participants has shown that people with a family history of diabetes see their risk of prediabetes increase by 26%....

Renowned scientists from all over the world meet again in Munich to present and discuss new results from their research on our 7th traditional "Wiesn...

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Marburg have found that thermogenesis in mammalian brown adipose tissue is a mechanism...

We are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference. This meeting will be held on September 22-24, 2013, at the...

On July 16, 2013 the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a partner in the DZD, will open a new institute – the Institute for Beta Cell Biology. In this...

As a large European study with 2,056 healthy adults around age 50 shows, physical fitness, i.e. cardiorespiratory* fitness and physical activity...

Respiratory infections in early childhood may be a potential risk factor for developing type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), according to a study published...

Scientists at the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO) at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner within the DZD, and the Technical University of...

The 73rd Scientific Sessions (2013) of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) will begin on June 21st in Chicago. More than 18,000 diabetes experts...

On June 12th the Helmholtz Association invited the public to a panel discussion at the Berlin Forum on Friedrichstraße. This was the second event in...

The onset age of type 1 diabetes in children can now be accurately estimated for the first time. In the largest international study of its kind,...

In the article “The Cancer-Associated FGFR4-G388R Polymorphism Enhances Pancreatic Insulin Secretion and Modifies the Risk of Diabetes”*, which was...

Close collaboration between basic scientists and clinicians is the key to the efficient translation of medical research findings. This was the...

Scientists of the Institute of Diabetes and Obesity at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, in collaboration with colleagues at the...

The Scientific Award 2013 of the Klüh Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation in Science and Research went this year to University Professor Dr....

A DNA variant near a digestive enzyme does not only affect risk of developing diabetes but also affects the response to treatment. This finding is...

The Diabetes Congress 2013, the 48th annual meeting of the German Diabetes Association (DDG), came to a successful close on May 11, 2013 in Leipzig....

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) will participate with an interactive stand at the Diabetes Tour 2013 in the Congress Center Essen (CCE...

New research shows that growing up in areas where air pollution is increased raises the risk of insulin resistance (the prescursor to diabetes) in...

At this year's annual meeting of the German Diabetes Association (DDG), two scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) were honored...

Some of the earliest results from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in The Young (TEDDY) study - a major Europe-USA consortium exploring the...

The German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, a partner in the DZD, held its second diabetes information day on April 10th. More than 200 diabetes...

Together with other diabetes experts, Prof. Dr. Andreas Fritsche of the DZD partner institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of...

The German Center for Diabetes Research contributes to the advancement of young researchers with its own training and education program for young,...

High concentrations of free fatty acids (FFAs) in the blood predict insulin resistance in humans only when high blood concentrations of the fatty...

On Saturday, March 16th, the German Center for Diabetes Research took part in the first Diabetes Information Day of the Diabetes Information Service...

In a review article analyzing novel data that has emerged during the past five years, scientists of the University of Tübingen, a partner in the DZD,...

The Center for Islet Cell Transplantation at Dresden University Hospital has saved a 43-year-old work accident victim from developing diabetes: A team...

The Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research (IDR), directed by Professor Heiko Lickert at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, has...

On Saturday, March 16th the Diabetes Information Service Munich is hosting its first Diabetes Information Day in the Munich hospital Klinikum rechts...

The symposium “Diabetes Complications 24 Years after the St. Vincent Declaration – What is the Situation in Germany?” will take place on April 26,...

Three proteins that can be measured in plasma correlate with type 2 diabetes and are thus potential new biomarkers for the disease. These are the...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD, Germany) and German Research Center for Environmental Health (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich,...

On January 21, 2013 3Sat nano broadcast a documentary about the liver protein fetuin-A, which may trigger metabolic problems. The main focus of the...

Interaction between the hormones glucagon and fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) critically regulates lipid metabolism and body weight. The result of...

After conducting a rigorous and multifaceted evaluation, an international commission of experts gave the German Institute of Human Nutrition...

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

Working in partnership with the German Center for Diabetes Research, scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München have discovered that low...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) presented its research activities to the public  at two recently held events – the Diabetes Tour in...

Sanofi and the Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (IDO) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have entered a new strategic research alliance in the field of...

This year the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) held an award competition for young scientists for the first time. Young scientists of the...

Diabetes and its secondary diseases adversely affect patients’ quality of life and pose challenges to both physicians and the healthcare system alike....

A collaboration between scientists in Munich, Germany and Bloomington, USA may have overcome one of the major challenges drug makers have struggled...

In collaboration with the agency Feuer&Flamme, the German Diabetes Center, a partner in the DZD, has launched an initiative for healthy nutrition and...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) presented itself in all sessions of the 48th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of...

Women with gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) who breastfeed their infant have been found, over the long term, to have a 40 percent...

At the World Health Summit in Berlin, a session on the topic of obesity will take place on October 22nd at 2:30 PM. Renowned scientists will discuss...

In a metabolomics study organized also by the DZD 14 novel biomarkers could be identified. The study was accomplished by a research team led by Anna...

The European Association for the Study of Diabetes will unveil a bronze bust in honor of the Berlin researcher during a commemoration ceremony on...

Detecting a predisposition to type 2 diabetes and preventing the disease before it develops is possible based on a current study by scientists at the...

On October 1st a  symposium will take place in Berlin highlighting the advances that have been made in diabetes research. The symposium, organized by...

Participants are being sought for a new ImmunDiabRisk study by the Diabetes research group of Technische Universität München and the Institute for...

Today in Germany the estimated percentage of adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is between seven and eight percent. New epidemiological data and...

The MEG Center Tuebingen is organizing the 5th Autumn School „Structure the Brain“ from October 9 to 11, 2012. The Center is a partner of the...

As of the beginning of this year, a blood glucose tolerance test to screen for gestational diabetes is being offered to all expectant mothers in...

The 10th Long Night of Science in Dresden on July 6th drew tens of thousands of visitors to the research institutions of the university city in...

Obesity and diabetes are on the rise in Germany despite an increase in people’s physical activity. The Germany-wide pre-diabetes lifestyle...

Together with leading German scientists at all stages of the value chain, Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the DZD, is building a strong...

Two genes that are overexpressed in adipose tissue of morbidly obese people have now been identified by renowned scientists working within the...

More and more children and adolescents are being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and at younger and younger ages. The number of new cases peaks in the...

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) presented its research activities along with the other German Centers for Health Research (DZG) at an...

Prevent Diabetes – Personal Diabetes Counseling and Interactive Information

Diabetes – what are the causes and symptoms? Is diabetes curable? Can the...

The brain plays a crucial role in our body weight by controlling our eating habits. The gray cells receive the necessary information about the current...

Four scientists of the partner institutes of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) were honored at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the German...

The award ceremony for the Alexander von Humboldt professorships took place in Berlin on May 15, 2012. One of the coveted positions went to Professor...

„Insulin, Adipokine und Gehirn“ meaning „Insuline, Adipokines and Brain“ is the subject of the symposium organized by the Deutsches Zentrum für...

A free nationwide telephone hotline on Diabetes will be open on April 16, 2012 from 7 pm to 9 pm. Under 0800-0 60 4000 experts of the Competence...

The Institute for Diabetes Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München, which is headed by Prof. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, has discovered that autoimmune...

A research team led by Professor Eckhard Wolf and Professor Jochen Seißler of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich and affiliated with the German...

The dietary intake of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) from food of animal origin may alter brain function and sleep. This is a conclusion of a study...

With its unique focus on all aspects of translational research the German Center for Diabetes Research is dedicated to educate a new generation of...

Julia Szendrödi, MD, PhD, of the Institute for Clinical Diabetology at the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf (DDZ), a partner in the German Center...

Gestational diabetes is diagnosed in nearly four percent of all expectant mothers in Germany. In 2010 approximately 24,000 women were affected. For...

Scientists at the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have compared different methods for estimating the percentage of body fat. According to...

In a podcast of Bavarian Radio’s series Bayern 5 aktuell Professor Stefan informs listeners about interesting links between obesity and diabetes.
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The incidence of autoantibodies against antigens of the insulin-producing beta cells has a peak between the age of nine months and two years. In turn,...

Using the body’s own resources – brown fat tissue – scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research led by Professor Norbert Stefan of...

The younger girls are at the onset of menstruation, the greater their risk of developing prediabetes or diabetes in the course of their lives. This is...

July 18-20, 2012 Dresden will host a state of the art conference on Stem Cell Biology with high relevance to type 1 diabetes. The 4th International...

The biochemist Professor Hadi Al-Hasani will give his inaugural lecture on January 13, 2012 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Düsseldorf....

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Forsa Survey in the Year of Science – Research for Our Health

Diabetes is a disease of civilization: Most cases could be avoided by leading a...

Awards for Research on Novel Adipokine Hormone and on the Relationship between Environmental Factors and Diabetes

On November 30, 2011 the Jühling...

Berlin – Type 1 diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in children and adolescents. Around 24 000 boys and girls living in Germany have been...

Neuherberg, 16.11.2010. The Minister-President of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, officially  opened the Diabetes Research Department at the Helmholtz...

As of the present time, more than six million people suffer from diabetes in Germany. In view of the steadily growing number of patients, the Federal...

Neuherberg, 12.10.2011. Professor Matthias Tschöp has been named a recipient of one of the four Alexander von Humboldt Professorships. Professor...

Visitors can learn about all aspects of diabetes at the World Diabetes Day 2011 exhibition at the International Conference Center in Berlin, which...

People with good vitamin D status have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study, carried out at the Helmholtz Zentrum München in...

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in cooperation with Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and King’s College London (KCL), have identified the...

Zum Jahrestreffen der “European Association for the Study of Diabetes” (EASD) kommen rund 17.000 Diabetes-Experten vom 12. bis 16. September 2011 in...

Neuherberg, 12.08.2011. Analyses of the metabolic profile of blood serum reveal significant differences between men and women. From their tests,...