Currently, we are experiencing a true pandemic of a communicable disease by the virus SARS-CoV-2 holding the whole world firmly in its grasp. Amazingly and unfortunately, this virus uses a metabolic and endocrine pathway via ACE2 to enter our cells causing damage and disease. Our international research training programme funded by the German Research Foundation has a clear mission to train the best students wherever they may come from to learn to tackle the enormous challenges of diabetes and its complications for our society. A modern training programme in diabetes and metabolism does not only involve a thorough understanding of classical physiology, biology and clinical diabetology but has to bring together an interdisciplinary team. With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, this prestigious and unique metabolic training programme is facing new challenges but also new opportunities. The consortium of the training programme has recognized early on the need for a guidance and for practical recommendations to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic for the community of patients with metabolic disease, obesity and diabetes. This involves the optimal management from surgical obesity programmes to medications and insulin replacement. We also established a global registry analyzing the dimension and role of metabolic disease including new onset diabetes potentially triggered by the virus. We have involved experts of infectious disease and virology to our faculty with this metabolic training programme to offer the full breadth and scope of expertise needed to meet these scientific challenges. We have all learned that this pandemic does not respect or heed any national borders and that we have to work together as a global community. We believe that this transCampus metabolic training programme provides a prime example how an international team of established experts in the field of metabolism can work together with students from all over the world to address a new pandemic.

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transCampus 代谢培训计划探索 SARS-CoV-2 病毒与代谢疾病的联系

目前，我们正在经历一场真正的传染病大流行，由病毒 SARS-CoV-2 牢牢抓住了整个世界。令人惊讶和不幸的是，这种病毒通过 ACE2 使用代谢和内分泌途径进入我们的细胞，造成损害和疾病。我们由德国研究基金会资助的国际研究培训计划的明确使命是培养最优秀的学生，无论他们来自哪里，学习应对糖尿病及其对我们社会造成的巨大挑战。糖尿病和新陈代谢的现代培训计划不仅涉及对经典生理学、生物学和临床糖尿病学的透彻理解，而且还必须汇集一个跨学科团队。随着冠状病毒大流行的到来，这一享有盛誉的独特代谢训练计划面临着新的挑战，也面临着新的机遇。培训计划联盟很早就认识到需要为患有代谢疾病、肥胖症和糖尿病的患者社区提供指导和实用建议来应对 COVID-19 大流行。这涉及从手术肥胖计划到药物和胰岛素替代的最佳管理。我们还建立了一个全球登记处，分析代谢疾病的维度和作用，包括可能由病毒引发的新发糖尿病。我们让传染病和病毒学专家加入我们的新陈代谢培训计划，以提供应对这些科学挑战所需的全面专业知识。我们都知道，这种流行病不尊重或不顾及任何国界，我们必须作为一个全球社区共同努力。我们相信，这个跨校园代谢培训计划提供了一个典型的例子，一个由代谢领域知名专家组成的国际团队如何与来自世界各地的学生合作应对新的流行病。