News from the Life Sciences at TUM

Top international rankings, awards and grants, anniversaries, new professors: the TUM School of Life Sciences looked back on a successful year at its traditional New Year's reception. Dean… [read more]

In the 2025 university elections, Prof. Martin Klingenspor was elected Dean of the TUM School of Life Sciences, taking over from Prof. em. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner at the end of September. In… [read more]

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a major research instrumentation grant application from the TUM School of Life Sciences, coordinated by Markus List (Professor of Data… [read more]

On October 22, 2025, the Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS) hosted the international symposium “10 Years of BayBioMS: Accelerating Mass Spectrometry Research at… [read more]

A team led by Dr. Eva Rath at the TUM School of Life Sciences is researching the interactions between intestinal inflammation and the intestinal hormone GLP-1 in inflammatory conditions such… [read more]

At the general meeting of the TUM Senior Excellence Faculty on December 1, 2025, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner was appointed Emerita of Excellence. This honorary title recognizes outstanding… [read more]

Stefan Guldin, Professor for Complex Soft Matter at the TUM School of Life Sciences, is awarded with an ERC Grant for the project EngToTarget. The project aims to develop nanostructures that… [read more]

The results of an international research team, including Prof. Sebastian T. Meyer (TUM), show that an optimized mix of species yields over 10% more with half the amount of fertilizer… [read more]

Phages are the hope of medicine. In the science program Quarks, Prof. Bärbel Stecher from the TUM School of Life Sciences explains the role of bacteriophages in the gut microbiome. [read more]

We are pleased to introduce Marjolein Buisman to the TUM School of Life Sciences. In September 2025, she was appointed Professor of Management of Digital Food Businesses at the TUM School of… [read more]