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Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!

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.

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+++ New Paper - Female endurance athletes show a reduced plasma cell-free DNA response to all-out and 3-h cycling compared to male counterparts.

In collaboration with our colleagues of the University of Mainz, we investigated in this study how cell-free DNA (cfDNA) responds to both maximal and prolonged endurance exercise and whether these responses differ between women and men. Both a VO₂max test and a 3-hour cycling session resulted in an…

+++ New Paper - Divergent skeletal muscle metabolite exchange in insulin-like growth factor-1-stimulated myotubes and resistance-exercised human muscle

Skeletal muscle hypertrophy requires increased nutrient uptake, yet global metabolite exchange during growth remains poorly understood. We profiled metabolite uptake and release in IGF-1-stimulated C2C12 myotubes and in human skeletal muscle 24 h after resistance exercise. In vitro, IGF-1 promoted…

ExSec - Is secretin an exerkine? New DFG funding at the Exercise Biology

Exercise is a potent intervention for the prevention and treatment of over 25 chronic diseases, including metabolic, cardiovascular, neoplastic, and mental disorders. The health benefits of exercise are mediated by organ-specific adaptations and the systemic effects of exercise-induced signaling…

Munich Longevity Symposium on February 25, 2026: International experts discuss biological aging at TUM

How old are the heart, liver, and brain really? And can human aging be slowed down in a targeted manner? These are the kinds of questions addressed by the Munich Longevity Symposium, which is organized by the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology at the Technical University of Munich. The…

From cachexia to muscle hyertrophy - 19th Munich Muscle Meeting

The Munich Muscle Meeting is an initiative of the Munich muscle research groups. Our goal is to meet regularly to discuss current topics in muscle research and to initiate joint projects. On February 12, 2026, the 19th Munich Muscle Meeting took place, organized by Prof. Henning Wackerhage and Dr.…

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