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Prof. Dr. Michael Roden Receives Silver Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna

DZD speaker Prof. Dr. Michael Roden was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor for his many years of special service to the state of Vienna. With this award, the City of Vienna honors people who have made special contributions to the country through their public or private work.
Portrait of Professor Michael Roden.

Prof. Dr. Michael Roden. © DZD

“I am delighted to receive this award in my hometown. However, it also underlines the relevance of our research, which began for me at the University Clinic in Vienna and the Vienna General Hospital and which I have now been continuing for a long time in Düsseldorf,” emphasized Prof. Dr. Roden.

The diabetes expert was an Associate University Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine III at Vienna General Hospital from 1995 to 2003. He later headed the 1st Medical Department at Hanusch Hospital, where he founded the teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna and the Karl Landsteiner Institute for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases. Since 2008, he has been Scientific Director and Chairman of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) in Düsseldorf as well as W3 Professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Director of the Clinic for Endocrinology and Diabetology at Düsseldorf University Hospital (UKD). Roden is also one of the five spokespersons for the German Center for Diabetes Research.

His research interests include precision medicine in diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and energy metabolism in people with diabetes and obesity.

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