Metabolism of Human Diseases

This book examines the metabolism of the key molecules of life and how a defective metabolism of these molecules leads to common human diseases. It provides the first detailed summary of the metabolism of individual substances and their functioning.

Professor Eckhard Lammert, PhD. Studies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 1995 Master thesis at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), University of Heidelberg. In 1998 PhD at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany. Four year postdoctoral research at the Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. From 2002 to 2008 Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. Since 2008 Full Professor and Head at the Institute of Metabolic Physiology at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, and since 2013 also Director of the Institute for Beta Cell Biology at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ). Research Interests: blood vessel formation, onset of type II diabetes mellitus in connection with vascular changes; cell-cell interactions in pancreatic islets, insulin secretion. For his work on type II diabetes mellitus Eckhard Lammert received the Paul-Ehrlich-und-Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Young-Investiga