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Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (IUF)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The IUF’s major task is to carry out molecular preventive medical research in the area of environmental health. The main objective is the analysis and evaluation of risks to human health that result from environmental factors in order to improve health care and to develop more preventive and therapeutic strategies.
Activities
- Research
Involved in research projects
- Establishment of normal human neural progenitor cells as an in vitro screening model for the evaluation of the neurotoxic potential of chemicals
- Improvement of the embryonic stem cell test (EST) using neural marker genes for testing the developmental neurotoxicity in vitro
- Normal human neural progenitorcells as a screening model for substances that are toxic for neural development
Contact
Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine
(IUF)
Auf'm Hennekamp 50
40225 Düsseldorf
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: 0211-3389-0
Fax: 0211-3190910
Email: beyen(@)uni-duesseldorf.de
