Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
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Our strategy: Many athletic performances are critically dependent on metabolic function, and physical training is effective in preventing and treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and obesity. The Exercise Biology group at the TU Munich therefore aims to investigate topics related to sports and metabolism often with disease relevance. We often use state-of-the-art methods of metabolic research such as arteriovenous metabolomics analyses and metabolic flux analyses as well as methods of molecular sports physiology. Our main goal with this strategy is to mechanistically answer important unanswered questions in the field. We want to discover new phenomena that help athletes optimize their performance, help patients recover, and ultimately help all people who want to stay fit and healthy for a long time.
As part of the TUM Global Visiting Professor Program, Cholsoon Jang, a leading expert in metabolic research from the University of California, Irvine and a publisher in high-ranking journals Nature, Science, and Cell, visited Munich for one week.
His stay included collaborative lab work with the…
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ZEIT Online interviewed Henning Wackerhage on the topic of leisure sports. In the podcast, he discusses the importance of regular physical activity outside of competitive sports. Among other issues, he addresses how people can find a suitable sport based on their personality type and how to…
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Oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis are the two truly major energy metabolism pathways in humans. While maximal oxygen uptake has been used for a century as a whole-body measure of maximal oxidative phosphorylation, there is no universally accepted, comparable measure of maximal glycolysis. In…
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Prof. Dr. Henning Wackerhage, head of the Exercise Biology Research Group at the Technical University of Munich, was interviewed by Welt am Sonntag in June 2025 about current research on the amino acid taurine.
The conversation focused on the potential influence of taurine on age-related changes in…
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Our doctoral student Tim Havers recently published a new review on the extent to which muscle mass affects body fat mass and glucose metabolism.
Overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus are metabolic health problems and diseases that affect billions of people worldwide. Studies in animals…
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