Andreas L. Birkenfeld

Prof. Dr. Andreas Birkenfeld is Medical Director of the Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology at the University Hospital of Tübingen. He is also Head of the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of Helmholtz Munich at the DZD site in Tübingen and spokesperson for the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.). As a physician, he treats people with obesity and diabetes in his department. As an expert in these diseases, which are closely linked, his research focuses in particular on the prevention of metabolic diseases.