Anette Ziegler

Prof. Anette Ziegler is a German doctor and Director of the Institute of Diabetes Research at the Helmholtz Center Munich. Prof. Ziegler studied medicine at LMU Munich. After obtaining her license to practice medicine and receiving her doctorate from LMU, she worked as a research fellow at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, USA. She subsequently became adjunct professor at LMU Munich. From 2007 to 2009 she was Director of the Department of Endocrinology at Klinikum Schwabing in Munich. In 2010, she was appointed as Chair of Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes at the TUM university hospital, Klinikum rechts der Isar, and became Director of the newly founded Institute for Diabetes Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. She has been President of the Immunology of Diabetes Society since 2017. Since 2015, she has been leading the international study platform GPPAD.

Prof. Ziegler’s research focuses primarily on the understanding of the natural history of type 1 diabetes in humans, the identification of the mechanisms and predictive markers of the disease and the translation of findings into trials to prevent type 1 diabetes.

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