Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

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Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
Cologne-Lindenthal, Gleueler Strasse
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Gleueler Strasse 50, Cologne-Lindenthal
Type of research: clinically-oriented basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Metabolism research, neuroscience, imaging
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Jens Brüning
Employee: approx. 130
Homepage: www.sf.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research ) is a research institute under the umbrella of the Max Planck Society . With their basic research, the researchers at the institute want to understand how the body regulates its weight and sugar metabolism. The main focus of research is in particular the elucidation of the neural control circuits in the brain, which ensure a balanced energy balance in the body. The researchers use multimodal and molecular imaging to describe intact but also dysregulation. If we succeed in fundamentally understanding the neuronal signaling pathways of the metabolism in both healthy and sick people, new molecular therapeutic approaches for diseases such as old age and obesity can be developed in the long term.

The institute is centrally located on the campus of the University of Cologne and the Cologne University Hospital. Immediate neighbors and scientific partners are the natural science and medical faculty of the University of Cologne, the Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) , the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging and the caesar research center in Bonn. Jens Claus Brüning has been Director of the MPI for Metabolic Research since 2011 .

Structural data

The institute comprises the following departments and research groups:

Departments
  • Neuronal Control of Metabolism ( Jens C. Brüning )
  • Obesity and Cancer (Thomas Wunderlich)
MPG research groups
  • Neuronal Circuits and Behavior Group (Tatiana Korotkova)
  • Neurocircuit Wiring and Function (Sophie Steculorum)
Research groups
  • Translational Neurocircuitry (Marc Tittgemeyer)
  • Synaptic Transmission in Energy Homeostasis Group (Henning Fenselau)

Graduate School: Cologne Graduate School of Aging Research

The Cologne Graduate School of Aging Research was founded in 2013 as a joint graduate school of the Graduate School of the Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and the International Max Planck Research School for Aging (IMPRS AGE). In addition to the CECAD Cluster of Excellence at the University of Cologne and the Cologne University Hospital, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging, the Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research and the caesar research center are involved. The Cologne Graduate School of Aging Research offers exceptionally talented students the opportunity to do a doctorate in the field of aging research as part of a 3-year structured program. The doctoral degree is awarded by the University of Cologne. The "Cologne Graduate School of Aging Research" has been offering a Master Fellowship program since 2019 . This program awards up to 5 master's scholarships per year to excellent students who are particularly interested in the field of aging research. The students complete their master’s degree in the "Biological Science Master Program" at the University of Cologne.

History of the MPI for Metabolism Research

Today's Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research was founded in June 2014 and emerged from the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research . The roots of this institute go back to 1951, when Klaus Joachim Zülch was appointed as a scientific member of the Max Planck Society to head the newly established Department of General Neurology in Cologne as an associated department of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt . In 1982 Wolf-Dieter Heiss succeeded Zülch as Director of the Department of General Neurology and in the same year the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research was founded in Cologne. In 1990 the institute moved to its current building on the campus of the University Hospital Cologne. With the appointment of Yves von Cramon as administrative director in 2005 and the installation of four junior research groups so far, the institute was redesigned. At that time, the institute was renamed MPI for Neurological Research and Klaus-Joachim-Zülch Laboratories of the Max Planck Society and the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne (UoC).

In view of the dynamic development of the research campus in Cologne through the funding of the Cologne Cluster of Excellence "Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases" (CECAD) in 2007 and the establishment of the neighboring MPI for Biology of Aging in 2009, the Max Planck Society decided to realign the research focus of the MPI for Neurological Research to research into metabolic and metabolic disorders. In 2011 Prof. Jens Claus Brüning was won as a scientific member of the MPG and as the new director of the institute. The institute was then renamed the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in June 2015 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Organigram on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, accessed on November 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ The institute. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ MPI for Metabolism Research. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  4. ^ Cologne Graduate School of Aging Research: Home. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Biology: Master of Science. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '32.5 "  N , 6 ° 54" 59.9 "  E