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Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler, head of the Assistant Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition and Health, was featured in a TV report of the program "Doc Fischer" of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) on January 17, 2022. Under the title "Losing weight - why it often doesn't work with sports alone", the nutritionist… [read more]

About every second German develops cancer in the course of his or her life. That is around 510,000 new cases of cancer per year. Experts expect an increase to 600,000 by 2030. According to the Robert Koch Institute, about 1.7 million people in Germany live with a cancer that was diagnosed in the… [read more]

Do beach volleyball players perceive the playing strength and short-term changes in the playing strength of their opponents at all and adjust their serving decisions accordingly? These questions were answered by the Chair of Performance Analysis and Sports Informatics in a recent study. The study… [read more]

On 1 January 2022, Prof. Dr. Manuel Spitschan accepted the call of TUM to the new Rudolf Mößbauer Assistant Professorship for Chronobiology & Health in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. After studying psychology at the University of St. Andrews in… [read more]

The COVID-19 pandemic has massively changed social life in Germany. Many people go to the doctor less often because of fear of infection and undergo preventive examinations less frequently. What impact has the first wave of the pandemic had on early detection, diagnosis and treatment of new cancer… [read more]