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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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Proteomics and Exercise - Research visit at Harvard Medical School

Our PhD student Daniela Schranner returned in December from her three-month research visit in the lab of Robert Gerszten at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. The research group at Harvard focusses on clinical biomarkers related to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes by measuring metabolites…

Metabolic Diseases - PhD students visit Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Two of our PhD students, Daniela Schranner and Sander Verbrugge of the Exercise Biology Group, visited the renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in June. Both participated in an international doctoral student workshop called ‘Exercise in the Management and Prevention of Metabolic Disease’. They…

Dr. Philipp Baumert got Postdoc funding by the EuroTech Universities Alliance

We are delighted to announce that Dr Philipp Baumert has successfully applied for a significant Postdoc fellowship from the EuroTech Alliance together with Prof Henning Wackerhage (Chair of Exercise Biology) and Prof Lars Keld Nielsen (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the…

Of muscles and genes: 9th Munich Muscle Meeting at the German Heart Center of Munich - Organisers Prof. Dr. Agnes Görlach, Dr. Andreas Petry

Skeletal muscle is not only a popular topic in the gyms and football clubs of Munich. There is also a large skeletal muscle research community that researches everything from muscle development, muscle disease, muscle ageing to muscles in athletes. Since 2016, the Munich muscle research community…

New Publication: Exercise responsive micro ribonucleic acids identify patients with coronary artery disease

Mirco RNAs are small nucleotides of 19-23 base pairs. They function as natural negative regulators of mRNA expression. Beneath local effects, they are further secreted into the blood stream and have therefore systemic effects on other tissues. Micro RNAs are expressed specifically in response to…

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