On April 14, 2026 at 3:30 pm, we will have another guest in our digital lecture series Health & Environment: Guest: Prof. Edmund Maser, Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology for Natural Scientists, University Medical School Schleswig-Holstein,...
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Health & Environment lecture series
Health & Environment lecture series
On March 24, 2026 at 3:30 pm, we will have another guest in our digital lecture series Health & Environment: Guest: Prof. Muzlifah Haniffa, Deputy Institute Director and Head of Cellular Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Professor of Derma...
Health & Environment lecture series
On March 3 2026 at 3:30 pm, we will have another guest in our digital lecture series Health & Environment: Prof. Henning Wackerhage, Technische Universität München (TUM) Title of the talk: The effects of muscle hypertrophy and -atrophy on metabol...
Health & Environment lecture series
On February 10, 2026 at 3:30 pm we will have another guest in our digital lecture series Health & Environment: Prof. Zoltán Jakus Semmelweiss Universiy, Budapest, Hungary Title of the talk: Organ-specific lymphatic vascular function in health and...
Online symposium on Recent Advances in Polygenic Score Modeling
Our junior professor Christian Staerk co-organized an online Symposium on “Recent Advances in Polygenic Score Modeling”. The symposium will be hosted via Zoom from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (CET) on October 29, 2025. Speakers are Hannah Klinkhamme...
Book a Scientist
The IUF participates with two topics within health, ageing & nutrition (Gesundheit, Altern & Ernährung) in the Leibniz dialogue format Book a Scientist: Charlotte Esser: How could the eternity chemicals PFAS damage immune cells – do we ...
Institute’s magazine
The new issue of our institute’s magazine is online. Enjoy reading. Download IUF aktuell...
The skin under the influence of climate change
The effects of climate change on skin health are largely unknown. Scientists at the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf conducted an epidemiological study to investigate the relationship between temperature and h...
Markers in iPSC quality control – a new approach to enhance standardization
Scientists from the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf recently published a study on “Reassessment of marker genes in human induced pluripotent stem cells for enhanced quality control” in Nature Communications. ...
Prof. Krutmann was awarded the Finsen Medal
The International Congress of Photobiology took place in Perth, Australia, from August 25 to 30, 2024. It was organized by the International Union of Photobiology (IUPB) together with the Molecular and Experimental Pathology Society of Australasia (M...
