General Research Focus Areas
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Health Promotion in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (Focus on school and university settings)
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Primary Prevention of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
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The Importance of Carbohydrate Quality for Health
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Life-Course Epidemiology (Focus on nutrition during critical periods of childhood and adolescence and its implications for health in adulthood
Current projects
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Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2024-2027
(Project Leads: Prof. Dr. Anette Buyken, Prof. Dr. Lars Libuda)Collaborative project at the University of Paderborn involving:
- Prof. Dr. Anette Buyken (University of Paderborn)
- Prof. Dr. Lars Libuda (University of Paderborn)
- In cooperation with:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Claus Reinsberger (University of Paderborn)
- Prof. Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff (University of Esbjerg, Denmark)
- ALA Institute, Bochum (Prof. Dr. Michael Falkenstein)
Completed Research Projects
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Funding by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) via the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), 2018-2020
(Project Lead: Dr. Ute Alexy, later taken over by Prof. Anette Buyken)Collaborative Project Between:
- University of Bonn, DONALD Study Research Unit (Ines Perrar, Dr. Ute Alexy, Prof. Thomas Remer)
- University of Paderborn (Prof. Anette Buyken)
- University of Reading (Dr. Gunther Kuhnle)
- German Diabetes Center (Prof. Christian Herder, Prof. Michael Roden)
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Funding by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) via the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), 2017-2018
(Project Leads: Prof. Anette Buyken, Prof. Anja Kroke, Prof. Jana Rückert-John)Collaborative Project Between:
- University of Paderborn (Valeria Sladkova, Prof. Anette Buyken)
- Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Julia Depa, Catherina Jansen, Prof. Anja Kroke, Prof. Jana Rückert-John)
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Funding by the University of Paderborn
Support Program: Incentive System for Increasing the Proportion of Women in Professorships (Funding Line 3), 2018Project Location: University of Paderborn
Project Team: Valeria Sladkova, Prof. Anette BuykenIn Cooperation With:
- Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Jana Rückert-John)
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Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2014-2018
(Project Leads: Dr. Ute Alexy, Prof. Anette Buyken, Prof. Christian Herder)
Collaborative Project Between:
- University of Bonn, DONALD Study Research Unit (Sarah Roßbach, Dr. Ute Alexy, Prof. Ute Nöthlings, Stefanie Koch)
- University of Paderborn (Tanja Diederichs, Prof. Anette Buyken – formerly DONALD Study)
- German Diabetes Center (Prof. Christian Herder, Prof. Michael Roden)
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In Cooperation With:
- University of Giessen (Prof. Stefan Wudy)
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Partial Funding by the World Cancer Research Fund Netherlands (2014-2015)
(Project Lead: Prof. Anette Buyken)
Collaborative Project Between:
- University of Paderborn (Katharina Penczynski, Prof. Anette Buyken – formerly DONALD Study)
- University of Bonn, DONALD Study Research Unit (Prof. Thomas Remer, Dr. Danika Krupp, Katja Bolzenius, Anna Bring)
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In Cooperation With:
- University of Bonn (Johanna Rienks, PD Sarah Egert)
- German Diabetes Center (Prof. Christian Herder, Prof. Michael Roden, Dr. Daniel Markgraf)
- University of Giessen (Prof. Stefan Wudy)
- Children's Hospital Dortmund (PD Hermann Kalhoff)
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Funding by Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life” and ERA-NET Cofund HDHL INTIMIC METADIS, 2020-2023
(Project Lead: Prof. Jutta Dierkes, University of Bergen, Norway)
Collaborative Project Between:
- University of Bergen (Prof. Jutta Dierkes, Bergen, Norway)
- Nofima AS (Dr. Simon Ballance, Ås, Norway)
- University of Paderborn (Prof. Anette Buyken)
- University of Leipzig (Prof. Antje Körner)
- Chalmers University (Prof. Rikard Landberg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
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Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2018-2023
(Project Leads: Dr. Ute Alexy, Prof. Anette Buyken, Prof. Christian Herder)
Collaborative Project Between:
- University of Bonn, DONALD Study Research Unit (Dr. Ute Alexy)
- University of Paderborn (Prof. Anette Buyken)
- German Diabetes Center (Prof. Christian Herder, Prof. Michael Roden)
Additional Collaboration Partners
- Prof. Jennie Brand-Miller, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Australia
- Assistant Prof. Jimmy Louie, School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong