Prof. Dr. Jan G. Hengstler

Head of Department

Head of department

Prof. Dr. Jan G. Hengstler

hengstler@ifado.de

+49 231 1084-348

Secretariat

Monika Turajski

turajski@ifado.de

+49 231 1084-349

Address

Ardeystr. 67
44139 Dortmund

since 03/2007
Head of the research group "Systemtoxicology", Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
03/2006 – 02/2007
Provisional head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Toxicology, University of Leipzig
04/2003 - 02/2007
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Leipzig
11/1990 - 03/2003
Research scientist at the Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz (Director of Institute: Prof. Dr. Franz Oesch)
11/1998
“Habilitation“ (German university lecturing qualification) in Pharmacology and Toxicology
06/1997
Physician specialized in Pharmacology and Toxicology (Ph.D. equivalent according to World Education Services, New York, NY)
08/1992
License to practice medicine
12/1991
Thesis (MD): DNA damage in patients treated with alkylating agents
10/1984 – 10/1990
Study of Medicine, University of Mainz, Germany

Here you will find the Key publications from 2010 onwards. For all other publications of our scientific staff, please look at the links to other databases such as Pubmed.

Schneider KM, Candels LS, Hov JR, Myllys M, Hassan R, Schneider CV, Wahlström A, Mohs A, Zühlke S, Liao L, Elfers C, Kilic K, Henricsson M, Molinaro A, Hatting M, Zaza A, Drasdo D, Frissen M, Devlin AS, Gálvez EJC, Strowig T, Karlsen TH, Hengstler JG, Marschall HU, Ghallab A, Trautwein C:

Gut microbiota depletion exacerbates cholestatic liver injury via loss of FXR signalling. Nat Metab 3 (9):1228-1241 (2021)

Remetic J, Ghallab A, Hobloss Z, Brackhagen L, Hassan R, Myllys M, Radun R, Mlitz V, Zhu C, Baumgartner M, Schrottmaier WC, Mussbacher M, Timelthaler G, Scharnagl H, Stojakovic T, Assinger A, Fuchs CD, Hengstler JG, Trauner M:

Loss of bile salt export pump aggravates lipopolysaccharide-induced liver injury in mice due to impaired hepatic endotoxin clearance. Hepatology 75: 1095-1109 (2022)

Nell P, Kattler K, Feuerborn D, Hellwig B, Rieck A, Salhab A, Lepikhov K, Gasparoni G, Thomitzek A, Belgasmi K, Blüthgen N, Morkel M, Küppers-Munther B, Godoy P, Hay DC, Cadenas C, Marchan R, Vartak N, Edlund K, Rahnenführer J, Walter J, Hengstler JG:

Identification of an FXR-modulated liver-intestine hybrid state in iPSC-derived hepatocyte-like cells. J Hepatol 77: 1386-1398 (2022)

Mohs A, Otto T, Schneider KM, Peltzer M, Boekschoten M, Holland CH, Hudert CA, Kalveram L, Wiegand S, Saez-Rodriguez J, Longerich T, Hengstler JG, Trautwein C:

Hepatocyte-specific NRF2 activation controls fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis in steatohepatitis. J Hepatol 74: 638-648 (2021)

Gui W, Hole MJ, Molinaro A, Edlund K, Jørgensen KK, Su H, Begher-Tibbe B, Gaßler N, Schneider CV, Muthukumarasamy U, Mohs A, Liao L, Jaeger J, Mertens CJ, Bergheim I, Strowig T, Hengstler JG, Hov JR, Marschall HU, Trautwein C, Schneider KM:

Colitis ameliorates cholestatic liver disease via suppression of bile acid synthesis. Nat Commun 14 (1): 3304 (2023) (17 pp)

Edlund K, Madjar K, Lebrecht A, Aktas B, Pilch H, Hoffmann G, Hofmann M, Kolberg HC, Boehm D, Battista MJ, Seehase M, Stewen K, Gebhard S, Cadenas C, Marchan R, Brenner W, Hasenburg A, Koelbl H, Solbach C, Gehrmann M, Tanner B, Weber K, Loibl S, Sachinidis A, Rahnenführer J, Schmidt M, Hengstler JG:

Gene expression-based prediction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in early breast cancer: results of the prospective multicenter EXPRESSION trial. Clin Cancer Res 27: 2148-2158 (2021)

Bloch D, Diel P, Epe B, Hellwig M, Lampen A, Mally A, Marko D, Villar Fernández MA, Guth S, Roth A, Marchan R, Ghallab A, Cadenas C, Nell P, Vartak N, van Thriel C, Luch A, Schmeisser S, Herzler M, Landsiedel R, Leist M, Marx-Stoelting P, Tralau T, Hengstler JG:

Basic concepts of mixture toxicity and relevance for risk evaluation and regulation. Arch Toxicol 97: 3005-3017 (2023)

Albrecht W, Kappenberg F, Brecklinghaus T, Stoeber R, Marchan R, Zhang M, Ebbert K, Kirschner H, Grinberg M, Leist M, Moritz W, Cadenas C, Ghallab A, Reinders J, Vartak N, van Thriel C, Golka K, Tolosa L, Castell JV, Damm G, Seehofer D, Lampen A, Braeuning A, Buhrke T, Behr AC, Oberemm A, Gu X, Kittana N, van de Water B, Kreiling R, Fayyaz S, van Aerts L, Smedsrød B, Ellinger-Ziegelbauer H, Steger-Hartmann T, Gundert-Remy U, Zeigerer A, Ullrich A, Runge D, Lee SML, Schiergens TS, Kuepfer L, Aguayo-Orozco A, Sachinidis A, Edlund K, Gardner I, Rahnenführer J, Hengstler JG:

Prediction of human drug-induced liver injury (DILI) in relation to oral doses and blood concentrations. Arch Toxicol 93: 1609-1637 (2019)

Vartak N, Drasdo D, Geisler F, Itoh T, Oude Elferink RPJ, van de Graaf SFJ, Chiang J, Keitel V, Trauner M, Jansen P, Hengstler JG:

On the mechanisms of biliary flux. Hepatology 74: 3497-3512 (2021)

Marchan R, Büttner B, Lambert J, Edlund K, Glaeser I, Blaszkewicz M, Leonhardt G, Marienhoff L, Kaszta D, Anft M, Watzl C, Madjar K, Grinberg M, Rempel E, Hergenröder R, Selinski S, Rahnenführer J, Lesjak MS, Stewart JD, Cadenas C, Hengstler JG:

Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 1 promotes tumor cell migration and poor survival in ovarian carcinoma. Cancer Res 77: 4589-4601 (2017)

Jansen PL, Ghallab A, Vartak N, Reif R, Schaap FG, Hampe J, Hengstler JG:

The ascending pathophysiology of cholestatic liver disease. Hepatology 65: 722-738 (2017)

Guth S, Hüser S, Roth A, Degen G, Diel P, Edlund K, Eisenbrand G, Engel K-H, Epe B, Grune T, Heinz V, Henle T, Humpf H-U, Jäger H, Joost H-G, Kulling SE, Lampen A, Mally A, Marchan R, Marko D, Mühle E, Nitsche MA, Röhrdanz E, Stadler R, van Thriel C, Vieths S, Vogel RF, Wascher E, Watzl C, Nöthlings U, Hengstler JG:

Toxicity of fluoride: critical evaluation of evidence for human developmental neurotoxicity in epidemiological studies, animal experiments and in vitro analyses. Arch Toxicol 94: 1375-1415 (2020)

Ghallab A, Hofmann U, Sezgin S, Vartak N, Hassan R, Zaza A, Godoy P, Schneider KM, Guenther G, Ahmed YA, Abbas AA, Keitel V, Kuepfer L, Dooley S, Lammert F, Trautwein C, Spiteller M, Drasdo D, Hofmann AF, Jansen PLM, Hengstler JG, Reif R:

Bile microinfarcts in cholestasis are initiated by rupture of the apical hepatocyte membrane and cause shunting of bile to sinusoidal blood. Hepatology 69: 666-683 (2019)

Here you will find the Publications from 2010 onwards. For all other publications of our scientific staff, please look at the links to other databases such as Pubmed.

Hengstler JG:

Mathematische Modellierung der Lebertoxizität und Regeneration. In: Müller RK, Klöcking H-P, Hengstler JG (Hrsg.): Toxikologie – Wurzeln und Wandel. Toxicologia – radices et evolutio (S 48-55). Erfurt: Verlag der Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt, 2011 (2012)

Stewart JD, Marchan R, Lesjak MS, Lambert J, Hergenroeder R, Ellis JK, Lau C-H, Keun HC, Schmitz G, Schiller J, Eibisch M, Hedberg C, Waldmann H, Lausch E, Tanner B, Sehouli J, Sagemueller J, Staude H, Steiner E, Hengstler JG:

Choline-releasing glycerophosphodiesterase EDI3 drives tumor cell migration and metastasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109: 8155-8160 (2012)

Heise T, Schug M, Storm D, Ellinger-Ziegelbauer H, Ahr HJ, Hellwig B, Rahnenfuhrer J, Ghallab A, Guenther G, Sisnaiske J, Reif R, Godoy P, Mielke H, Gundert-Remy U, Lampen A, Oberemm A, Hengstler JG:

In vitro - in vivo correlation of gene expression alterations induced by liver carcinogens. Curr Med Chem 19: 1721-1730 (2012)

Selinski S, Lehmann M-L, Blaszkewicz M, Ovsiannikov D, Moormann O, Guballa C, Kress A, Truß MC, Gerullis H, Otto T, Barski D, Niegisch G, Albers P, Frees S, Brenner W, Thüroff JW, Angeli-Greaves M, Seidel T, Roth G, Volkert F, Ebbinghaus R, Prager H-M, Lukas C, Bolt HM, Falkenstein M, Zimmermann A, Klein T, Reckwitz T, Roemer HC, Hartel M, Weistenhöfer W, Schöps W, Rizvi SAH, Aslam M, Bánfi G, Romics I, Ickstadt K, Hengstler JG, Golka K:

Urinary bladder cancer risk in relation to a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs2854744) in the insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (IGFBP3) gene. Arch Toxicol 86: 195-203 (2012)

Selinski S, Lehmann ML, Blaszkewicz M, Ovsiannikov D, Moormann O, Guballa C, Kress A, Truß MC, Gerullis H, Otto T, Barski D, Niegisch G, Albers P, Frees S, Brenner W, Thüroff JW, Angeli-Greaves M, Seidel T, Roth G, Volkert F, Ebbinghaus R, Prager HM, Bolt HM, Falkenstein M, Zimmermann A, Klein T, Reckwitz T, Roemer HC, Hartel M, Weistenhöfer W, Schöps W, Rizvi SA, Aslam M, Bánfi G, Romics I, Ickstadt K, Hengstler JG, Golka K:

Rs11892031[A] on chromosome 2q37 in an intronic region of the UGT1A locus is associated with urinary bladder cancer risk. Arch Toxicol 86: 1369–1378 (2012)

Bolt HM, Marchan R, Hengstler JG:

Nanotoxicology and oxidative stress control: cutting-edge topics in toxicology. (Editorial). Arch Toxicol 86: 1629-1635 (2012)

Kadereit S, Zimmer B, van Thriel C, Hengstler JG, Leist M:

Compound selection for in vitro modeling of developmental neurotoxicity. Front Biosci (Landmark ed.) 17: 2442-2460 (2012)

Hengstler JG, Marchan R, Leist M:

Highlight report: towards the replacement of in vivo repated dose systemic toxicity testing. (Editorial). Arch Toxicol 86: 13-15 (2012)

van Thriel C, Hengstler JG, Marchan R:

Pyrethroid insecticide neurotoxicity. (Editorial). Arch Toxicol 86: 341-342 (2012)

Marchan R, Bolt HM, Hengstler JG:

Systems biology meets toxicology. (Editorial). Arch Toxicol 86: 1157-1158 (2012)