Sep 30, 2021
The Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund (IfADo) studied residents and staff of a nursing home where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred shortly after the first BNT162b2 vaccination (BioNTech). The data show that people infected about ten days after their first vaccination have comparable antibody levels to fully vaccinated people.
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In cooperation with the University of Lübeck, the University of Bremen, the Ruhr University Bochum, the MSH Medical School Hamburg and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB – the Workers‘ Samaritan Federation) Dortmund, the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund (IfADo) has conducted a study to investigate how stressed rescue workers are. The focus was particularly on their own perception of stress and the physical examination of stress. The results of the study have now been published.
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The Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V. and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) are working together on novel testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 virus surveillance and determination of immunity. The project „Novel testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 virus surveillance and determination of immunity“ is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and will run for 18 months.
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Peter Bröde, research associate in the Sientific Department Immunology, received the „Best in Session Paper“ award of the Health Protection and Occupational Safety Session at the Spring Congress of the Society for Occupational Science (Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft – GfA) in Bochum as co-author of the paper „Are one-hour measurements sufficient for assessing physiological heat stress?“ together with Prof. Bernhard Kampmann, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
Stress at work or at home can make us more susceptible to infections or cancer. Immunologists at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) are investigating how stress affects the immune system in detail. In a new research project, they are focusing the basics of how a group of neurotransmitters involved in stress reactions influences the function of certain immune cells. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the next three years.
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In cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Department of Immunology has published an article about the topic „Using micro-designed surfaces to stimulate NK cells“
Garrecht, R., Meyer, R., Duppach, J., Reipschläger, S., Watzl, C. and Niemeyer, C. M. (2016), Designed DNA Surfaces for in Vitro Modulation of Natural Killer Cells. ChemBioChem. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201500629
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.201500629/abstract
In cooperation with the Department of Toxicology, we have published a paper regarding „NK Cells and Liver Fibrosis“.
Fasbender, F.; Widera, A.; Hengstler, J. G.; Watzl, C.: Natural killer cells and liver fibrosis. Front. Immunol. 7: article 19 (7 pp.) (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2016.00019
