Our Mission

We, the scientists at the Center of Membrane Biochemistry and Lipid Research, aim to entrench basic lipid research into clinical medicine, to make its impact palpable for patients.

Lipids are the primary molecules that build life – structurally by forming cell membranes, and mechanistically by regulating every aspect of cell metabolism. Our goal is to understand metabolic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, fundamentally and systematically, with an interdisciplinary approach and the help of scientists in a variety of fields. We use analytical, biochemical, biophysical, and computational methods on one hand, and disease model systems and clinical cohorts on the other to comprehend lipid function, dysfunction, and interaction with other molecules. We believe that this is the path to identifying the molecular origins of diseases. We work right at the interface of scientific progression and clinical application. This ensures a translational approach from bench to bedside and vice versa to serve all areas of medicine, from prevention of metabolic disorders to identifying so far unknown mechanisms of disease, and finding novel therapeutic approaches.