The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1454 “Metaflammation and Cellular Programming” for a second funding period. The research network will focus on investigating the links between western lifestyles and chronic inflammatory diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and the metabolic syndrome. The Department of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at TU Braunschweig is contributing to the scientific progress of the CRC in two projects with its expertise in the field of immune cell metabolism (immunometabolism) and in mass spectrometry-based methods for the analysis of metabolic processes.