A feature article in the August 13, 2026 issue of DIE ZEIT highlights the growing scientific interest in skeletal muscle as a key regulator of human health and presents current research led by Prof. Henning Wackerhage, Professor of Exercise Biology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and… [read more]

The first virtual DGMet & HyperMet DFG Exercise Metabolomics Symposium brought together researchers interested in metabolomics and exercise biology. The symposium featured talks by Prof. Cora Weigert (University Hospital Tübingen), Dirk Weber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and Tim Havers (IST… [read more]

The nature of HyperMet research requires analyzing large, complex datasets. To provide HyperMet researchers with practical training in metabolomics data analysis using data from their own projects, the leaders of the S09-HyperGraph project, Dr. Gabi Kastenmüller and Dr. Dominik Lutter, organized the… [read more]

In a recent HyperMet talk titeled “ Single-nucleus and spatial technologies reveal how muscles fail during cancer cachexia, opening the door to precision multi-target RNA therapies that preserve muscle mass and function”, Dr. Roberta Sartori, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the… [read more]

The fourth HyperMet progress report presented, equally, both progress within individual research projects and topics of research unit wide interest. Prof. Dr. Hanna Taipaleenmäki, Principal Investigator of P02-HyperBone and Co-Speaker of HyperMet, together with PhD candidate Angeliki Kalyva,… [read more]

The 2026 European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress in Lausanne provided an excellent opportunity to showcase the breadth of research from the Exercise Biology group at the Technical University of Munich and the emerging activities of the DFG Research Unit HyperMet. Although HyperMet has been… [read more]

Held on 19. & 20. June 2026, under the leadership of Prof. Schaller, the 1st Vienna Muscle Symposium provided an excellent platform for international scientific exchange in the fields of muscle research and ICU-acquired weakness (ICUAW). Representatives from various research groups—including those… [read more]

The ZEIT WISSEN podcast “Wie Muskeln den Körper heilen” explores current research on the role of skeletal muscle in health and aging. Hosted by Tom Kattwinkel, the episode features Prof. Henning Wackerhage, speaker of the HyperMet research group, Dr. Moritz Eggelbusch, HyperMet postdoctoral… [read more]

A guest lecture was given by Dr. Jorge L. Ruas, Professor at the Medical School of the University of Michigan, titled “Muscle-derived factors in the control of systemic bioenergetics: A role for the immune system?”. The talk focused on the role of skeletal muscle as a central regulator of systemic… [read more]

At the 3rd HyperMet Progress Meeting, several projects presented updates on their ongoing research activities and methodological developments. Manfred Blobner (University Hospital Ulm) reported on project P07 (HyperICU), which investigates metabolite exchange and muscle metabolism in critically ill… [read more]