Prof. Dr. Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg

Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg (born 1980) studied human medicine in Bochum and Leipzig and received his doctorate on the topic of "Endocannabinoids" under Prof. Dr. Michael Stumvoll. After his studies he spent three years at the National Institutes of Health in Phoenix (USA), where he conducted clinical studies on energy metabolism, obesity and diabetes mellitus. Here, he also conducted the first studies investigating food absorption in humans in relation to the gut microbiome. In addition to numerous publications in the field, the Nancy Nossal Award was received. This was followed by clinical training at the Charité in Berlin, with specialist training in internal medicine, endocrinology and diabetology in 2021. During his time at the Charité, he was one of the first graduates of the Clinician Scientist Program and, as part of this funding, a further research stay in the USA, at the Turnbaugh Lab in San Francisco, followed. Here, Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg conducted translational studies investigating the human gut microbiome in a gnotobiotic model. Upon his return, he became head of endocrinology at the Charité Obesity Center in 2016, and in 2019 he also became head of the Nutrition Team.

In addition to funding from the Einstein Foundation, the DZHK, and the Clinician Scientist Program, funding from a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group by Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and a junior research group in the Cluster of Excellence CMFI (Controlling Microbes to Fight Infection) followed in 2021. Since July 2021, Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg has also been a senior physician in the Medical Clinic for Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology at the University Hospital Tübingen.

The W3 professorship is in the Jülich model through Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and the Medical Faculty of Tübingen. The research group will be located in the M3 Research Institute. In addition, Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg heads the Clinical Study Center of the Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases and is part of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD).

He likes to spend his free time with his family of six in the countryside or on fast roller coasters in various theme parks.