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Leipzig receives excellence funding for new centre for metabolic research

With the Leipzig Centre of Metabolism, Leipzig University has successfully won the competition for excellence organised by the federal and state governments and will receive funding for the next seven years as part of the Excellence Strategy. The new research cluster with a clinical focus is dedicated to the research and treatment of widespread metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and fatty liver. The aim is to develop new approaches for diagnosis, prevention and treatment that are tailored to the individual causes of the disease in patients, such as genetic factors, early childhood influences, gender-specific differences and psychological stress.

03/06/2025

The research project is closely networked with Leipzig University Hospital, the Heart Centre and several non-university partners such as Helmholtz, Max Planck and Fraunhofer. With this infrastructure and an interdisciplinary team, LeiCeM aims to raise clinical metabolic research to a new level. A particular focus is on integrating gender aspects into personalised medicine, a field that has often been neglected to date. In addition to research, the cluster also aims to promote young talent and further develop academic teaching. New professorships, structured qualification programmes and interdisciplinary training courses are intended to strengthen Leipzig as a location for cutting-edge medical research in the long term. Excellence funding will start in January 2026, with around six million euros earmarked per year. The final funding amount will be announced in a separate approval letter. With the decision of the Excellence Commission, Leipzig is now one of the successful applicants in the "Clusters of Excellence" funding line for the first time.

News from "Universität Leipzig" on 28 May 2025

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