Arno Gutleb

Biography

During the last decade the main research interest was related to long-term effects of early life stage exposure to low and thereby environmentally relevant concentrations of a wide range of classes of compounds including but not restricted to environmental contaminants. Most often polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), brominated flame-retardants (PBDEs etc.) and their metabolites were chosen as model compounds with additional research on heavy metals, mycotoxins, allergens etc. Toxicity of nanomaterials and nanoparticles has attained a main focus and several projects funded by the FNR, FP7 and H2020 are currently ongoing. The development of highly relevant 3D-in vitro models is the core business of the research group. Furthermore two projects related to Human Biomonitoring have recently been finished. During the last decade the main research interest was related to long-term effects of early life stage exposure to low and thereby environmentally relevant concentrations of a wide range of classes of compounds including but not restricted to environmental contaminants. Most often polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), brominated flame-retardants (PBDEs etc.) and their metabolites were chosen as model compounds with additional research on heavy metals, mycotoxins, allergens etc. Toxicity of nanomaterials and nanoparticles has attained a main focus and several projects funded by the FNR, FP7 and H2020 are currently ongoing. The development of highly relevant 3D-in vitro models is the core business of the research group. Furthermore two projects related to Human Biomonitoring have recently been finished.

Research Interest

Environmental