Prof. Dr. Martin Wabitsch / PhD, MD

Head of Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

Head of Endocrine Research Lab

Chairman of Executive Board of the Centre for Rare Diseases (ZSE), University Medical Centre Ulm

Ulm University Medical Centre

Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Eythstr. 24, 89075 Ulm, Germany

Tel: 0731-500 57401

 

Scientific Focus

  • Regulation of growth and weight (energy homeostasis) in children and adolescents
  • Genetics, epigenetics and pathophysiology of endocrine diseases
  • Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome
  • Type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents, new technologies
  • Innovative, individualised therapies for obesity and diabetes
  • Details
  • Regulation of proliferation and differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMADS)
  • SGBS cells
  • Metabolism and endocrine function of human adipocytes
  • Energy metabolism of human adipocytes (BAT and WAT)
  • Functional characterisation of disease-causing variants of leptin in humans
  • Functional characterisation of lipodystrophy-causing genes
  • Details

Expertise

  • Specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine
  • Habilitation in paediatrics
  • Professor of the Medical Faculty of Ulm University
  • Diabetologist (DDG)
  • Additional designation Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg)
  • Qualification for specialised genetic counselling
  • Additional designation Nutritional Medicine (Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg)

 

Curriculum Vitae

since 2024: Chairman of Executive Board of the Centre for Rare Diseases (ZSE), University Medical Centre Ulm

since 2024: Deputy Site Spokesperson Ulm, German Centre for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ)

since 2017: Chairman of the Centre for Rare Endocrine Diseases (ZSEE), Ulm University Medical Centre

2012-2018: Coordinator of the Research Consortium Youth with Extreme Obesity (YES) of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)

since 2011: Chair of Cardiometabolic Research of Boehringer Ingelheim Ulm University BioCenter (BIU)

since 2004: Professor for Pediatrics, Head of Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and Endocrine Research Lab, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ulm University Medical Centre

2004: Call for C3 professorship for paediatric nutritional medicine, TU Munich 

2004: Associate Professor, Pediatrics

1997: Assistant professor, Pediatrics, Ulm University Medical Centre

1993:  Research Fellowship of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE), Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark (Prof. Pierre DeMeyts)

1991: Doctoral Thesis, Experimental Medicine (summa cum laude), Ulm University

1989 -1997: Specialist training and clinical and scientific  work in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Ulm University Medical Centre

1982-1989: Study of Medicine, Medical School, Universities of Berlin (Free University), Ulm, University of Nice and Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University)

2020: Award of the German Obesity Society (DAG): DAG medal for manifold merits in the field of obesity research

2014: ESPE Hormone Research in Paediatrics Award 

2013: ESPE Hormone Research in Paediatrics Award 

2008: Research Award of the City of Ulm

2002: Research Award of the German Diabetes Association

1998: Research Award of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)

1997: Young Investigator Award of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)

1995: Research Award of the German Society for Obesity Research (DAG)

1993: Research Fellowship of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) 

since 2022: Deputy spokesman of the German Working Group on Childhood Obesity (AGA)

2020 - 2024: Science Advisory Panel Member of “A Better Start: National Science Challenges”, University of Auckland, New Zealand

since 2019: Vice President of the European Consortium of Lipodystrophies

2016: Chairman ESPE Advanced Seminar in Developmental Endocrinology, Ulm

2015-2021: Member ESPE Science Committee

2013-2015: President of the German Obesity Association (DAG) e.V.

2008-2012: President of the German Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (APE/ DGKED e.V.)

1998-2004: Spokesman of the German Working Group on Childhood Obesity (AGA)

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin (DGKJ)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinderendokrinologie und -diabetologie (DGKED)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Endokrinologie (DGE)
  • Deutsche Adipositas Gesellschaft (DAG)
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Adipositas im Kindes- und Jugendalter (AGA)
  • European Society of Endocrinology (ESE)
  • European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)
  • European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG)
  • European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)
  • The Endocrine Society
  • Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft (DDG)
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pädiatrische Diabetologie (AGPD)
  • International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD)
  • Hormone Research in Pediatrics: Editorial Board
  • Molecular Cellular Paediatrics: Managing Editor
  • Adipositas: Editorial Board
  • Journal of Paediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism: Editorial Board
  • Over 600 articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, H-Factor 60
  • Various textbooks in Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
  • A list of publications can be found on PubMed.