Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in Germany. Many diseases that affect the heart and its blood vessels also have a metabolic cause. Strategies aimed at preventing or treating diseases such as heart attacks, diabetes or strokes must therefore always take metabolic causes into account.

The Interfaculty Center for Endocrine and Cardiovascular Disease Network Modelling and Clinical Transfer (ICON) on the LMU Großhadern/Martinsried campus, which opens in 2025, brings together interdisciplinary science relating to diseases of the cardiovascular system and transfers innovative therapeutic approaches from research to clinical application.