The winner of this year's Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize is Maria Luisa Balmer. The SNSF is awarding her the prize for her research into intestinal bacteria and their role in the development of diabetes and morbid obesity.
In Switzerland, approximately one child in six is overweight, and the number is increasing. This is concerning, given that being severely overweight increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes.Maria Luisa Balmer, specialist in Internal Medicine at Inselspital and head of a research group at the University of Bern
In recognition of her research work, she has been awarded the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize 2023 by the Swiss National Science Foundation . The award ceremony will take place at the University of Bern on 21 November. Using this approach, her team was actually able to identify five bacterial species that increase the susceptibility of the mice to obesity. As a next step, the team intends to investigate how this comes about - for example, which bacterial metabolic products contribute to the fattening effect, and what impact they have on the immune system.
Promoting health with chewing gum Balmer's research group is currently investigating the effect of dietary fiber in more detail in a clinical study involving over 100 severely obese children. The team has developed a chewing gum that has been enriched with water-soluble dietary fiber. And the best thing about this completely new idea is that the children do not realize the "FibreGum" is medicine. Like normal chewing gum, it tastes of mint.
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