German Institute for Nutritional Research

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German Institute for Nutritional Research
German Institute for Nutritional Research
German Institute for Human Nutrition (DIfE)
Category: research Institute
Carrier: none (legally independent SöR )
Membership: Leibniz Association
Facility location: Nuthetal ( Bergholz-Rehbrücke )
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Life sciences
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Tilman Grune, Birgit Schröder-Smeibidl
Employee: about 300
Homepage: www.dife.de

The German Institute for Nutrition Research Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) is an institute of the Leibniz Association that conducts experimental and applied research in the field of nutrition and health. The basis for this is worked out by the scientists in interdisciplinary collaboration with a broad spectrum of scientific, medical and epidemiological methods.

The DIfE research focuses on the following areas:

  • the role of eating habits and nutritional factors in the development of obesity and its complications, especially type 2 diabetes,
  • the role of diet in healthy aging, in particular the influence of diet on metabolic and functional impairment in old age, and
  • the biological basis of food selection and eating behavior.

The aim is to research the molecular causes of diet-related diseases and to develop new strategies for prevention, therapy and dietary recommendations.

The institute is based in the municipality of Nuthetal, south of Potsdam , in the Bergholz-Rehbrücke district .

history

On June 10, 1946, a branch of the Research Institute for Nutrition and Catering Science Berlin-Dahlem was established in Rehbrücke in a former home for the blind by order of the Soviet military administration in Germany , which was merged in 1948 with the Leipzig Institute for Vitamin Testing and Vitamin Research , which came from the former Reichsanstalt for vitamin testing and vitamin research . From 1951 Arthur Scheunert was the head of the facility . In 1957 the institute was accepted into the research association of the natural science, technical and medical institutes of the German Academy of Sciences and in 1969 it was reorganized as the Central Institute for Nutrition of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . The director was Helmut Haenel from 1964 to 1981 , Horst Schmandke from 1982 to 1990 and Helmut Haenel again from 1990 to 1991.

After reunification, on January 1, 1992, it was re-established as the German Institute for Nutritional Research in the legal form of a foundation under public law in the state of Brandenburg . The physician and biochemist Christian A. Barth took over the management of the DIfE until his retirement in 2001. His successor was the physician and pharmacologist Hans-Georg Joost , who headed the institute from 2002 until his retirement in 2014.

architectural art

The inner courtyard was designed after a competition in 2001 by the artist Hubertus von der Goltz with the expansive sculpture "Step by Step". Two balancing figure silhouettes typical of his work, here roughly life-size, seem to stride over a ribbon that meanders on 5 m high blue conical columns and symbolizes a path.

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