New DFG research group to investigate the relationship between muscle growth and metabolic health

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the new research group ‘HyperMet: Effects of Muscle Hypertrophy and Atrophy on Metabolic Health’, which includes researchers from the Technical University of Munich (speaker function), the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Helmholtz Centre Munich, as well as Technische Universität Braunschweig. The Braunschweig researchers are involved as metabolism experts and will receive around €560,000 in funding for their research.

The ‘HyperMet’ research project focuses on the relationship between muscle building and positive health aspects in humans. When skeletal muscle tissue shrinks and muscle mass decreases, for example in old age or as a result of serious disease, this is called muscle wasting. Muscle hypertrophy, on the other hand, occurs when muscles increase in size as a result of increased physical activity or exercise. The different effects of these two phenomena on metabolic health are the focus of the HyperMet research group.

Report TU Braunschweig