Michael Roden#
| Membership Number: | 6034 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://ddz.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8200-6382 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Deputy Head, Department Conservative Medicine, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2013 Chief physician, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetology, University Hospital Düsseldorf
- 2008 - 2013 Chief physician, Division of Metabolic Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf
- 2008 Chair (W3-Professor) for Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf
- 2008 Speaker, Executive Board and Scientific Executive Officer, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Ctr. for Diabetes Res., Düsseldorf
- 2008 Director, Institute for Clinical Diabetology at DDZ, Düsseldorf
- 2008 Board of Speakers, German Centers of Health Research, Diabetes (DZD e. V.), Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2005 - 2012 Director, Karl-Landsteiner-Institute for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vienna, Austria
- 2003 - 2008 Chief physician/Associate Professor, 1. Medical Dpt., Hanusch Hospital, Teaching Hospital of Med. Univ. Vienna
- 1994 - 2005 Max Kade Fellow (Austrian Academy of Science), Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT; USA
- 1997 - 2004 Associate Professor, Dpt. Internal Medicine III, General Hospital of Viennna, Univ. Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanisms of insulin resistance, mitochondrial function and inflammation in obesity, diabetes mellitus and fatty liver diseases
- Paradigm-shifting studies on the role of ectopic fat stores and nutrient-induced insulin resistance in humans
- Noninvasive tracing of metabolic fluxes
- Precision medicine in diabetes
- Clinical-experimental research on the (patho)physiology of carbohydrate, lipid and amino acid metabolism
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Honorary Membership, Hungarian Diabetes Association
- 2021 Werner-Creutzfeldt Prize, German Diabetes Association
- 2018 G. B. Morgagni Prize - Gold Medal Career Achievement, Italy
- 2018 19th Aretaeus Lecture, Hellenic Diabetes Association, Greece
- 2017 Paul-Langerhans Medal, Highest Award of German Diabetes Association
- 2017 Honorary doctorate, Med. School, Nat. & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Greece
- 2014 World-India Diabetes Foundation Global Oration, India-USA, Mumbai
- 2014 Somogyi Award, Hungarian Diabetes Association
- 2013 Honorary doctorate, Medical Faculty, Univ. of Belgrade
- 2006 Oskar-Minkowski Prize, Europ. Assoc. for the Study of Diab. (EASD)
- 2006 ESCI Award for Excellence in Clinical Sci., Eur. Soc. for Clin. Invest.
- 2004 International Novartis Award for Innovative Patient Oriented Research, Young Investigator, Europe-USA
- 2001 Novartis-Austria Award for Chemistry, Biology & Medicine
- 2001 Ferdinand-Bertram Award, German Diabetes Association
- 1999 Kardinal-Innitzer Prize, Austria
- 1996 Joseph-Skoda-Research Award, Austrian Soc. of Internal Medicine
- 1995 Hoechst Foundation Award, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Vienna, Austria
- 1994 Research Award of the City of Vienna, Mayor of Vienna, Austria
- 1992 Friedrich-Wewalka Memorial Award, Austr. Soc. Gastroent.&Hepatol.
