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MUG prize for Linda Böswald
17 Jul 2025
The Munich University Society (MUG) honours outstanding doctoral and habilitation candidates every year.
Mentor Prof E. Kienzle, PD L. Böswald (middle) and Prof R. Straubinger (Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
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Nutrition physiology in lab animals
Privatdozent Dr. Linda Franziska Böswald, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, has received an award for her habilitation project “Animal nutrition in laboratory animal science.”
In her dissertation, Linda Böswald studied how nutrition influences physiological parameters in laboratory animals. Among other things, she showed how the processing of animal feed affects the digestibility of starch, and the composition of the gut microbiome. Furthermore, she investigated the activity of digestive enzymes in different lab rodent species – setting new standards in laboratory animal nutrition.
In her own project, which is being funded by the German Research Foundation, she expanded her research to pigs – a model animal with growing importance in biomedical research. Her results help improve the quality of animal testing studies while also reducing the strain on animals. Today, Böswald leads the Core Facility Animal Models at the BMC, LMU and the research group for Translational and Comparative Nutrition in this facility. Her current research on the gut microbiome-brain axis in an Alzheimer’s model is being funded by the Excellence Initiative.
Source: LMU Newsroom