Animal Welfare Research Prize 2026 awarded
On 9 September 2026, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs awarded the Animal Welfare Research Prize to Prof. Dr Beate Escher of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).
The award, worth 100,000 euros, recognises her outstanding work in the development and application of cell-based bioassay methods that do not require the use of laboratory animals.
This represents an important contribution to modern, innovative and animal-free research.
Congratulations on this well-deserved award!
Dr. Georg Braun presented his work on effect-based biomonitoring at the “Global Exposome Summit” in Sitges, Spain. He demonstrated that exposome work shown go beyond merely identifying chemicals by including consideration of their effect and how they act together in mixtures.
Global Exposome Summit
Since 18 August 2025 Luise Henneberger has joined the Inaugural Early Career Board for "Chemical Research
in Toxicology” to work alongside the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal.
Congratulations to
Georg Braun for defending his PhD thesis with a publication in
SCIENCE on the additive effects on chemicals in human blood
(link)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.
