Professor Tschöp’s research focuses on dissecting the molecular underpinnings of diabetes and obesity in order to discover new preventive and therapeutic approaches for the metabolic syndrome. One of his areas of interest is the role of gut-brain communication as a key circuitry that regulates adiposity, glucose homeostasis and energy metabolism. Currently, his team from IDO aims at developing and establishing novel strategies for the early detection, individualized characterization, and personalized therapy of metabolic dysfunction.

Professor Tschöp, M.D., was the first German physician to be awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2012). He holds the chair of the Department of Metabolic Diseases at TUM. Subsequently, he held postdoctoral positions at Eli Lilly and the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam. At the University of Cincinnati he led a research institute as a tenured professor of endocrinology and diabetes at the Metabolic Diseases Institute, held the Arthur Russell Morgan Endowed Chair of Medicine and was research director of the Metabolism Center of Excellence for Diabetes and Obesity.