Matthias Tschoep

Principal Investigator
Associate Professor

matthias.tschoep@uc.edu

Matthias Tschöp is the Principal Investigator of the NEON laboratories. He is a neuroendocrinologist and physiologist by training, who received his M.D. from Munich Medical School, Germany in 1994. After 4 years as a resident and research fellow at the Munich University Hospital, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Eli Lilly Discovery Research Laboratories in Indianapolis and then as a Senior Scientist at the Department of Pharmacology, German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam, Germany. He is now an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati's Obesity Research Centre and Genome Research Institute. He favors a translational approach including basic research tools, advanced animal models of disease and related clinical studies to study how neuroendocrine circuits link afferent with efferent signals in the control of lipid, glucose and energy metabolism.

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