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]

In a recently published mini-review entitled “Skeletal muscle biomass as an underappreciated fate of glucose,” Henning Wackerhage, speaker of the HyperMet Research group, and Moritz Eggelbusch, postdoctoral researcher in HyperMet project P01, together with Juha J. Hulmi and Sakari Mäntyselkä from… [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]

Dr. Jason R. Cantor, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, gave a lecture entitled “Nature vs. Nurture: Decoding genetic and environmental contributions to human cell fitness.” In his talk, he discussed how environmental factors, in particular metabolite availability, shape… [read more]

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]