Dr. Jared Rutter, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Utah, delivered a talk entitled “The Language of Metabolic Signaling.” In his lecture, Rutter discussed how cells sense and respond to metabolic states, focusing on mitochondrial function and the role of metabolites… [read more]

Dr. Henning Tim Langer, group leader of the Muscle Wasting Laboratory at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, presented a lecture entitled “GLP-1 medicines and their effect on skeletal muscle.” The talk addressed concerns regarding potential muscle loss during pharmacologically induced weight… [read more]

As part of a recent HyperMet Journal Club, Prof. Dr. Henning Wackerhage, the speaker of HyperMet, presented and discussed several recent publications on the metabolic consequences of skeletal muscle hypertrophy and their relevance for metabolic health. Bimagrumab plus semaglutide and body… [read more]

The HyperMet project S08-HyperFlux hosted a five‑day metabolic research workshop at the Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS) at TU Braunschweig from 09–13.03.2026. The program combined laboratory training, methodological introductions, data analysis sessions, and scientific… [read more]

Shalender Bhasin, Endocrinologist and Professor at Harvard Medical School, gave a lecture entitled “Testosterone: Effects on Muscle and Metabolism.” The talk addressed the role of testosterone as a key regulatory hormone in skeletal muscle and systemic metabolism. Testosterone was presented as a… [read more]

The review Muscle–immune metabolic crosstalk: shared pathways in cachexia and exercise, published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology, examines how skeletal muscle and the immune system interact through shared metabolic pathways in both wasting and adaptive conditions. Senior authors Maria Rohm and… [read more]

The HyperMet research unit held its second Progress Meeting, which summarized recent developments in individual research projects. Presentations covered advances in cancer cachexia, metabolic imaging, large‑animal models, and public outreach. Maria Rohm (P06 HyperCancer) reported progress on… [read more]

HyperMet hosted a two-day workshop titled “Next Level Productivity using AI Assistants”, led by Dr. Daniel Mertens, biochemist, lecturer, and group leader at the German Cancer Research Center and the University of Ulm, and part-time trainer with Schiller & Mertens. The workshop introduced the… [read more]

A recent publication in Nature Metabolism reports a comprehensive multi‑omics analysis of cancer cachexia, providing new insights into tissue‑specific and systemic metabolic reprogramming. Dr. Maria Rohm, senior author of the study, titled “Multi‑omics profiling of cachexia‑targeted tissues reveals… [read more]

The first Munich Metabolic Methods Meeting took place on 20.01.2026 at TranslaTUM. The event brought together researchers working on experimental and analytical approaches in metabolism research. Prof. Dr. Nicole Strittmatter (TUM) delivered the keynote lecture titled “Measuring metabolism using… [read more]