Research
The research focus at the Chair of Nutritional Medicine is on the role of nutrition and single nutrients in relation to the development, prevention, and treatment of diet-induced diseases, especially of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
The Chair of Nutritional Medicine combines biomedical research at the Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan/ZIEL-Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences with applied nutritional medicine at the University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar.
Connections between nutrition and disease will be explored with a wide variety of methods from molecular biology to clinical studies.
The research priorities are:
- Functional characterization of diabetes and obesity relevant gene variants (Clinical cooperation group "Nutrigenomics and Type 2 Diabetes mellitus" - in cooperation with the Helmholtz Zentrum München)
- Causes, mechanisms, and consequences of adipose tissue dysfunction in human obesity (Biobank, Competence Network Obesity)
- Nutrition in pregnancy and perinatal prevention of obesity (INFAT and GeLiS trial)
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes (PLIS Study, German Center for Diabetes Research)
- Nutrition and physical activity in breast cancer (SUCCESS-C-Study)
- Investigation of functional food in humans
A Human Study Center is established at the Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan/ZIEL-Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences and in the Institute of Nutritional Medicine, Uptown Munich Campus D, University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar.
Please see the publication list for more information about our research projects.