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Mechanistic understanding of the underlying principles governing the adverse effect of chemicals on humans, wildlife and ecosystems

Bioanalytical tools for monitoring and assessment of complex mixtures

Environmental toxicology of ionizable organic chemicals

Animal-free hazard assessment

Exposure assessment in in vitro bioassays and quantitative in vitro to in vivo extrapolation

Effect-based Human Biomonitoring

PFAS in vitro (mixture) effects

Department News

Hot Papers

The Zelltox team supported a new version of MLinvitroTox, a machine learning-assisted tool for high throughput hazard based prioritization of high resolution mass spectrometry data that was developed at Eawag by Arturi et al. (link to publication)
Our contributions were improved prediction models for in vitro toxicity.

Team News

Welcome to our new PhD student Yuxin Liu in the QTOX project. Yuxin started with the QTOX annual meeting in Valencia where she (second from left) and other QTOX doctoral candidates inspected the mesocosms for our joint QTOX mesocosm study in 2026. Yuxin’s project will deal with quantitative in vitro to vivo extrapolations from cells to fish.

QTOX meeting, Valencia, Mesocosm

Further impressions from the QTOX annual meeting in Valencia:

QTOX annual Meeting

QTOX annual Meeting


Hot Papers

Congratulations to Georg Braun for defending his PhD thesis with a publication in SCIENCE on the additive effects on chemicals in human blood (link)


Graphic from Science Georg Braun

New partnership

On 10 October 2024 we kicked off the project "Developing high-throughput experimental and computational tools for safe-by-design chemicals – Proof of principle for antioxidants”- a collaboration between Eawag, ETH Zürich, University of Zurich and UFZ funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and led by Prof. Kathrin Fenner. We welcome Bernadette Mederer into the Zelltox team as the UFZ PhD student in this project. More info on  Link

Sinergia group

Poster Presentation

We welcome Haotian Wang from Beijing for a two-year postdoc sponsored by the Humboldt foundation. Haotian gave a poster presentation about his project at the Humboldt Network Meeting in Magdeburg from 24 to 26 April. In his project at UFZ, he will identify neurotoxic chemicals in the aquatic environment by integrating data science with impact-oriented analysis using high-throughput bioanalytical tools.

Haotian Wang

Final Theses

We are now offering experimental theses again.
If you are interested in writing your Bachelor or Master Thesis at the department of Cell Toxicology you can contact Beate Escher or you can express your interest by clicking here.

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