Does a healthy lifestyle promote cognitive performance in old age? What new therapeutic approaches can be used to extend the health span in old age? What must the environment look like so that people can age healthy and satisfied? These are just a few examples of the pressing questions that society and politics are currently posing to science. The Leibniz Research Alliance Healthy Ageing wants to provide answers.

  1. New Biomarkers of Inflammation Identified as Risk Factors for Neuropathy
    24.08.2018 · DDZ Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum

    Although many patients suffer from polyneuropathy, relatively little is currently known about its development, which also limits the therapeutic options. It is known that inflammatory processes contribute to other diabetic...

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  2. A molecular switch may serve as new target point for cancer and diabetes therapies
    13.08.2018 · FMP Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie

    If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently discovered by scientists at the Leibniz- Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin...

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  3. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at FLI
    13.08.2018 · FLI Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute

    Ukrainian cell biologist Dr. Yuliya Kurlishchuk has received a research fellowship for postdocs from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. With this funding, she is now a guest at the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann...

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