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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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Advert for Master Thesis: Evidence-based recommendations for training and nutrition in professional Alpine Skiing

In cooperation with the German Skiing Association (DSV), the Chair of Exercise Biology offers two Master Theses dealing with optimisation of training methods and nutrition in professional alpine skiers. More information is provided in the download files. If you are interested, please contact  Prof.…

Advert for Master Thesis: What is the expression of a Warburg effect-associated enzyme in diseased and healthy skeletal muscle?

Nearly 100 years ago Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cell change their metabolism. Today we know that this serves to provide metabolites as substrates for anabolic reaction in fast growing cancer cells. In our preliminary data we noted that a similar metabolic remodelling occurs during…

TUM expedition to the Wildspitze (3768 m)

The TUM module in mountain sports was running for the second time this year. In this module, students attend lectures on topics that range from evidence-based training methods and nutrition for mountain sports to genetic variants that have been naturally selected in Tibetans and people that live on…

Philipp Baumert will move from Liverpool John Moores to start a TUFF fellowship in the TUM Exercise Biology group

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) invited 50 young scientists (from initial 362 applicants in 2018) from all over the world to the annual Research Opportunities Week (ROW) in Munich. During this week, the participants had the opportunity to visit different research facilities and research…

Regular physical exercise is one of the most important things you can do for your health!

Exercise can improve your health, and reduce your risk of developing various diseases like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, depression and, in older people, sarcopenia. Exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits. On July 8, Gabryela Kuhnen, PhD student at the Chair of…

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