Program May 3, 2024


13:00 | Lecture

Dr med. Maximilian U. Friedrich MD, Harvard Medical School

Brain in balance – deciphering the brain networks of equilibrium and understanding their therapeutical implications


13:40 | Lecture

Dr med. Christine Maria Poch, Technical University of Munich

A matter of the heart – simulating and researching heart disease and treatment options in a 3D heart model


14:20 | Coffee Break


14:40 | Lecture

Professor Dr med. Jens Brüning, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, University of Cologne

Central nervous regulation of energy and sugar metabolism


15:20 | Lecture

Professor Dr phil. Rudolf Zechner, University Graz

A life's work in metabolic research - the discovery of the mechanisms of fat degradation in the cell

Lecturers 2024

Dr med. Maximilian U. Friedrich MD

Dr med. Maximilian U. Friedrich MD

Jung Career Advancement Award 2024

Neurologist and Postdoc at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics of the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School


Lecture

Brain in balance – deciphering the brain networks of equilibrium and understanding their therapeutical implications


Dr med. Christine Maria Poch

Dr med. Christine Maria Poch

Jung Career Advancement Award 2024

Specialist in cardiology and clinical researcher at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Internal Medicine I at the Technical University of Munich


Lecture

A matter of the heart – simulating and researching heart disease and treatment options in a 3D heart model



Foto: © Daniel-Delang_TUM

Professor Dr med. Jens Brüning

Professor Dr med. Jens Brüning

Jung Prize for Medicine 2009

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research and the Polyclinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Cologne


Lecture

Central nervous regulation of energy and sugar metabolism



Foto: © Jung-Stfitung/Eric Anders

Professor Dr phil. Rudolf Zechner

Professor Dr phil. Rudolf Zechner

Jung Gold Medal for Medicine 2024

Professor emeritus at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Graz, Austria


Lecture

A life's work in metabolic research – the discovery of the mechanisms of fat degradation in the cell



Foto: © Uni Graz/Kernasenko