Weight loss injection

Will there soon be no more fat people, Professor?

Prof. Matthias Tschöp, inventor of the "Mounjaro" anti-fat syringe

(Bild: Matthias Tunger Photodesign)

Weight loss injections are the last hope for millions of overweight people. The most effective of them was invented by German physician Prof. Matthias Tschöp (57), who is coming to MedUni Vienna on Wednesday. Conny Bischofberger visited the exceptional scientist in Munich.

The Helmholtz Pioneer Campus in Oberschleissheim, northwest of Munich, has a futuristic feel. Open spaces, co-working spaces, high-tech laboratories. The office of the Vice President of Helmholtz Health Research with its 10,000 scientists and employees, Professor Matthias Tschöp, is located in the cube with the number 3620. On the wall of his meeting room hangs a picture in light shades of blue and gray, showing a massif of peaks in Patagonia. "The Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre," explains Tschöp, who worked as a mountain rescue doctor in his younger years, "a childhood dream of mine. You still have to have goals."

The international expert on diabetes and obesity has just been awarded an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University. His last major goal was to develop an effective anti-obesity drug - it took Tschöp 25 years to achieve this with the "Mounjaro" anti-obesity injection.

"Krone": Professor, you are coming to Vienna on Wednesday to talk about the opportunities and risks of the new weight loss injections. What do you associate with the city?