Young talent award for research into the health effects of Saharan dust

Who hasn’t experienced it, the annoying desert dust that settles on cars from time to time?

11-Apr-2024 - Gerrit Bredeck was awarded the Rudolf Buchheim Prize of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT) for his work on the health effects of Saharan dust. He conducted his research as doctoral student in the working group of Dr. Roel Schins at the IUF - ...

What mechanisms ensure healthy aging?

Insights into healthy aging mechanisms from the roundworm

26-Nov-2018 - Median life expectancy of our society is still increasing which leads us to the question: how can we extend healthy aging? This is being investigated on a molecular level in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent round worm with a size of about 1 mm. It is widely used in ...

New insight into anti-aging mechanisms

20-Jul-2015 - Mitochondrial autophagy has been identified as mediator of lifespan extension upon mitochondrial stress in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans by the research team of Natascia Ventura, MD, PhD, and leader of the liaison group between the IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental ...

Ectoine: a natural compound reduces lung inflammation

22-Feb-2013 - Scientists from the IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf show that the extremolyte Ectoin® may positively influence lung inflammation associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). From earlier studies it was known that Ectoin has the potential to ...