Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors

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INSTITUTE

Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
Ardeystr. 67
D - 44139 Dortmund

Phone: +49 / 231 1084 213
Fax: +49 / 231 1084 403
E-mail:

Sekretariat:
Phone: +49 / 231 1084
E-mail:

Academic background

May 2008 - present: Postdoctoral fellow at IfADo, Dortmund, Germany
Dec 2007: PhD (Toxicology), University of Rochester, NY, USA (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazzareno Ballatori)
May 2005: MSc (Toxicology), University of Rochester, NY, USA (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazzareno Ballatori)
May 2002: BSc (Environmental Sciences), BSc (Biology), North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Yolanda Anderson)
May 2001–Jul 2002: Research Intern, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Leslie Recio)
Sep 2000–May 2001: Student Fellow, Julius L. Chambers Biomedical-Biotechnology Research Institute, NC, USA (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Pradeep Chatterjee)

Research interests

to better understand how environmental agents alter human health leading to diseased states, in particular cancer
to more fully characterize intracellular signaling networks which are altered on exposure to known or suspected carcinogenic agents, thus providing potential therapeutic targets

Current research

research group "Systems toxicology" (Head of department: Prof. Dr. Jan G. Hengstler)
Project title: Characterization of newly identified genes with potential roles in carcinogenesis