Lead Scientist @HelmholtzMunich | Incoming group leader @IMPvienna Metabolism | Cancer Cachexia | Tissue clearing l Light-sheet imaging

Joined August 2010
Incredibly happy to see our work published in @Nature today 🥹 By combining whole-body tissue clearing, light-sheet microscopy and AI, we mapped obesity-associated remodeling across the entire mouse body in 3D at cellular resolution nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Today in @Nature, we report MouseMapper: foundation-model AI to map disease perturbations across the entire mouse body cell-by-cell. In obesity, it revealed body-wide inflammation & unexpected facial nerve damage. 🧵👇🔉 nature.com/articles/s41586-0… led by @Dorie00 & @yingchen733
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First human trial of a noninvasive vagus-nerve device for cancer cachexia is enrolling at MD Anderson. Cachexia is neural signaling, not starvation — neuromodulation breaking that circuit is exactly the translation to watch after our sensory-neuron work. terasaki.org/institute/news/…
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SPARCS: Deep Visual Proteomics-style laser microdissection meets genome-wide CRISPR screening. Find genes behind how cells look, isolate them, profile them by mass spec. Now in @CellCellPress! Tweetorial from @niklas_a_s follows🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.…
Out now in @CellCellPress: ✨SPARCS✨, a platform for discovering the genes behind complex cellular phenotypes. SPARCS combines Al-powered image analysis with automated laser microdissection to precisely isolate cells from large mutant libraries. Paper and highlights👇(1/9)
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Out now in @CellCellPress: ✨SPARCS✨, a platform for discovering the genes behind complex cellular phenotypes. SPARCS combines Al-powered image analysis with automated laser microdissection to precisely isolate cells from large mutant libraries. Paper and highlights👇(1/9)
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The cardiovascular benefit from Ozempic in the large randomized trial was substantially not related to weight loss academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…
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We found an adrenergic iron–MSRA axis that regulates methionine redox signaling and adipose browning. Disrupting MSRA preserved tissue mass and prolonged survival in tumor-bearing mice. Huge congrats to Jung Seung Nam, who led this work! nature.com/articles/s43018-0…
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💫 Thrilled to share that I’ll join @IMPvienna as a Group Leader in March 2027! My lab will study systemic disease across biological scales, from molecular mechanisms to organism-wide dynamics, with a focus on cancer cachexia. 👉🏻 imp.ac.at/groups/doris-kalte…
She’s coming to the IMP, and she’s recruiting! 🔬 Doris Kaltenecker will join the IMP as a Group Leader in March 2027. Her lab will study organ-to-organ communication in systemic diseases, with a focus on cancer cachexia: imp.ac.at/news/article/doris…
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🎓 I’ll be recruiting PhD students through the Vienna BioCenter Autumn 2026 PhD call. If you’re interested in inter-organ communication, whole-body imaging or systemic disease biology, get in touch! training.vbc.ac.at/phd-progr…
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She’s coming to the IMP, and she’s recruiting! 🔬 Doris Kaltenecker will join the IMP as a Group Leader in March 2027. Her lab will study organ-to-organ communication in systemic diseases, with a focus on cancer cachexia: imp.ac.at/news/article/doris…
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In 2025, one child got a CRISPR therapy made for him. Gene therapy's "moon landing". My #ERCStG ONE2MANY asks how editing scales from n=1 to many, in the heart: one edit for a group of mutations, AI-guided protein engineering & delivery. Thanks @ERC_Research & my fantastic team!
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Now online in @CD_AACR: Tumor-Secreted ADAMTSL4 Activates Latent TGFβ1 to Drive Cancer Cachexia - by @JulianoMacha17, Stephan Herzig, @BerrielDiaz and colleagues @HelmholtzMunich @helmholtz_diabc
Now online: Tumor-Secreted ADAMTSL4 Activates Latent TGFβ1 to Drive Cancer Cachexia doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD…
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🔥 Check out our new study in Cancer Discovery @CD_AACR! We identify tumor-secreted ADAMTSL4 as a driver of cancer cachexia through local TGF-β1 activation. Congratulations to @JulianoMacha17 and the team! Happy to have contributed! aacrjournals.org/cancerdisco…
🧬 Excited to share our new study, now published in Cancer Discovery! We identify tumor-secreted ADAMTSL4 as a previously unknown driver of cancer cachexia, promoting skeletal muscle and adipose tissue wasting. A thread on what we found 🧵👇
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We are opening the call for the first generation of Founding Principal Investigators of the Cori Institute in Graz. We are looking for scientists who want to understand metabolism as the fundamental organising logic of life.
🤖 Made with AI
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Got your own 3D data from clearing and light sheet imaging, but no idea how to tackle the analysis? We have just the solution for you in Munich: A two-day course on deep learning and VR-assisted segmentation, atlas registration, and so on! Take the course @erturklab
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SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years👇🏻. We’re developing advanced imaging & AI to cure Long COVID & beyond👇🏻. Join us 🤗 nature.com/articles/s41586-0… cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f… biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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📰 New Feature in @NaturePortfolio on #CancerCachexia The article explores recent advances in cachexia research, including work by @BerrielDiaz (IDC) on organ crosstalk and the role of liver-derived signals in metabolic regulation. ➡️ nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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💫 I'm excited to share our new Comment @NatureRevEndo, calling to reframe #cancercachexia from malnutrition to treatable metabolic disease: nature.com/articles/s41574-0…
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