The Center for Nutritional Medicine, funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, is a research institution with the goal of bringing nutritional expertise into clinical medicine and thereby strengthening the importance of nutritional medicine in treating lifestyle diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.

The EKFZ is spread across two faculties – Faculty of Medicine rechts der Isar and the Weihenstephan Science Center. The center combines basic research with clinical research and brings together expertise from four specialties: clinical, molecular, pediatric, and translational nutritional medicine.

The following scientists shape the work of the EKFZ:

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Timper – Clinical Nutritional Medicine, Spokesperson of the EKFZ (since 2025)
• Prof. Dr. Martin Klingenspor – Molecular Nutritional Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Heiko Witt – Pediatric Nutritional Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Bartelt – Translational Nutritional Medicine (since 2024)
• Prof. Dr. Hans Hauner – Founding Director of the EKFZ and Else Kröner Senior Professor of Nutritional Medicine (since 2024)

Since October 2020, the professorships funded at the EKFZ have been complemented by a collaboration with Else Kröner Senior Professor Prof. Dr. Berthold Koletzko, pediatrician at Dr. Hauner's Children's Hospital at LMU.

The objectives of the EKFZ:

• Basic research and clinical research on key issues in nutritional medicine
• Modern nutritional medicine concepts for the prevention and treatment of nutrition-related diseases of affluence such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer
• Qualified teaching for students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs
• Further training for doctors and nutritionists in the field of nutritional medicine
• Sociopolitical engagement in the area of public health.
  
  Further information can be found on the EKFZ website.