Welcome!

The Institute of Clinical Nutrition was founded in 2007.

The main task of this institute is to represent the department of Clinical Nutrition, Prevention and Gender as well as the department of Immunology, Dietetics and Nutritional Psychology in research and teaching at the University of Hohenheim.

Nutritional Medicine / Prevention and Gender  (180a)  (Prof. S. C. Bischoff)

Immunology (180b)  (Prof. Th. Kufer)

Applied Nutritional Science / Dietetics (180c)  (Dr. Maren Podszun)

Applied Nutritional Psychology (180d)  (Prof. N. Ströbele-Benschop)

The objective of this institute is to broaden the study courses of Clinical Nutrition and research into the areas of medicine, immunology, dietetics and food habits and, furthermore, to develop a connection between the method and the practice.

The main tasks of the institute are as follows:

• Health prevention by nutrition
• Clinical nutrition
• Malnutrition and parenteral nutrition

•           Supernutrition and obesity

•       Metabolic deseases

• M ucosal immunology and intestinal microbiome
• Intestinal barrier and nutrition
• Food allergy and mast cell research
• Applied dietetics
• Food questionnaires and nutrition assessment
• Anthropometry and body function
• Food habits
• Nutritional epidemiology

For details please look on the individual homepages (s.a.). 
Have fun!