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Medicine and Health

Prof. Ulrike Protzer, director of the TUM Institute of Virology, with staff members in the laboratory.

8/6/2026

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Study compares GLP-1 agonist with standard of care

Obesity drug significantly reduces the risk of serious cardiovascular events and infections

People with type 2 diabetes and obesity may benefit from treatment with tirzepatide. Tirzepatide, marketed under the brand name Mounjaro, can reduce the risk of heart attacks and hospitalizations due to infections by about one-third each compared with a conventional diabetes medication. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Harvard Medical School demonstrated this using health insurance data.

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Research Medicine

Children set off at the start of the race during the School Sports Festival

7/27/2026

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School Sports Festival at the TUM Campus at the Olympic Park

Elementary school children embrace the Olympic spirit

Around 350 elementary school children from across Bavaria spent an active morning on the TUM campus in Munich’s Olympic Park. The School Sports Festival marked the opening of Bavaria’s 2026 School Sports Week, with Bavaria’s Minister of Education Anna Stolz and Minister of Science Markus Blume joining representatives of TUM, the Bavarian State Sports Association, the Bavarian Sports Youth organization, and Olympic and Paralympic athletes for the launch.

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Medicine Campus news Public Engagement

A doctor and a patient are looking at a tablet PC

7/14/2026

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The digital platform “2036 – Healthy with AI?” is now online

Medical AI – a look ten years into the future

Artificial intelligence is transforming medicine. But what will be the direct impact in the coming years? A project by M1 – Munich Medicine Alliance takes a look into the future. Using fictional patient stories, experts describe what prevention, diagnosis, and treatment might look like in 2036. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) as part of the Science Year 2026 – Medicine of the Future.

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Medicine Research Artificial Intelligence Public Engagement

6/30/2026

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ERC Proof of Concept funding for medical applications and nanocoatings

Five ERC grants awarded to TUM researchers

A newly discovered receptor could form the basis for a diabetes therapy. Physical principles underlying vascular networks are enabling the development of new sensors to study thrombosis. A modified signaling molecule activates the body’s immune defenses in the fight against cancer – these are three of the five projects by TUM researchers that will receive ERC Proof of Concept grants. Through these grants, the European Research Council (ERC) supports innovations based on research findings.

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Medicine Research Entrepreneurship

6/30/2026

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Attackers can extract information about individual patients from AI models

Study reveals privacy risks in medical AI

AI models – for example, those used for cancer detection – are trained on patients’ health data. Even the mere fact that personal data has been incorporated into a model can have negative consequences for those affected if this information falls into the wrong hands. In “Nature”, a research team now shows that, using the right methods, this sensitive information can be extracted from models far more effectively than previously thought.

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Medicine Research Artificial Intelligence

6/23/2026

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EU funding for research in astrophysics and cancer immunotherapy

ERC Advanced Grants awarded to Prof. Suyu and Prof. Saur

How can we observe the earliest stages of supernovae? How can we prevent aggressive pancreatic tumors from suppressing the immune system? Two projects at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with Advanced Grants, will address these questions. This brings the total number of ERC grants at TUM to 265.

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Medicine Research

A researcher looks at a Petri dish containing a cell trap suspension. In the background, a computer screen is visible showing images of cells in microchannels.

6/18/2026

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CellTrap Visualizes Individual Cell Contacts

Lab-on-a-Chip Platform Shows How Immune Cells Attack Cancer Cells

Immunotherapies are a promising approach in the fight against cancer. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a lab-on-a-chip system called CellTrap. It makes it possible to observe the interactions between immune cells and cancer cells at the single-cell level. The method is intended to help better understand fundamental processes in cancer immunology and answer key questions.

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Medicine Research

Dr. Jochen Hahne and Prof. Peter Ueblacker

6/11/2026

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Interview: German national soccer team physician Jochen Hahne and FC Bayern physician Peter Ueblacker

“When you're on the field, you shut everything else out”

Dr. Jochen Hahne and Prof. Peter Ueblacker met at TUM University Hospital 20 years ago, when Hahne was a medical student and Ueblacker was a doctor in training. Today, the two alumni serve as team physicians for FC Bayern Munich. Jochen Hahne is also a physician for the German national soccer team. Before departing for the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the two spoke in an interview about their work as team physicians, their studies and their hopes for the tournament.

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Medicine Studies Artificial Intelligence Community

The patient is lying in an examination room and is being examined.

6/2/2026

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Applications in Digital Medicine

6G networks will improve network utilization

Telemedicine, continuous monitoring, and remote procedures are becoming increasingly important in medicine. For these to operate seamlessly in everyday clinical practice, data must be transmitted quickly, reliably, and without interruption. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital have investigated how future 6G networks can manage computing power and data transmission in such a way that up to 40 percent more applications can be run simultaneously.

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Medicine Research

Researchers at the presentation of the funding notifications for the M1 “Innovations for Patients” funding line

5/22/2026

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M1 Munich Medicine Alliance launches “Innovations for Patients” program

Seven projects to advance medicine

The M1 Munich Medicine Alliance is awarding funding for cutting-edge translational research from Munich for the first time. Through the “Innovations for Patients” program, seven research projects will receive a total of 7.45 million euros. Five of the cross-institutional projects are coordinated by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). M1 is an alliance of TUM, TUM University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and its hospital, and Helmholtz Munich.

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