Partners

6. Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA),
St Gallen, Switzerland

Professor Harald Krug is the Head of the Materials-Biology Interactions Laboratory at EMPA in Switzerland. Furthermore, he is involved in numerous European nanomaterial consortia. EMPA offers extensive facilities in the field of in vitro toxicology. Their services are especially focused on biomaterial development by performing routinely accredited in vitro biocompatibility test.

Within NANOMMUNE, the EMPA lab will be mainly involved in studying the in vitro effects of EN exposure to various cell lines. Harald Krug is a Work Package 3 leader in the NANOMMUNE project and will also contribute to the in silico analysis (WP5) and to the working group on Dissemination activities (WP7).

 

Group members:

  • Harald Krug, PhD. (Professor)
  • Peter Wick, PhD. (group leader)
  • Tina Thurnherr, PhD. (Postdoctoral fellow)

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Selected publications:

  1. Thurnherr, T., Su, D., Diener, L., Weinberg, G., Manser, P., Pfänder, N., Arrigo, R., Schuster, M.E., Wick, P., and Krug, H.F. (2009): Comprehensive evaluation of in vitro toxicity of three large-scale produced carbon nanotubes on human Jurkat T cells and a comparison to crocidolite asbestos. Nanotoxicology, 3, in press.  Read » (opens in new window)
  2. Spohn, P., Hirsch, C., Hasler, F., Bruinink, A., Krug, H.F., and Wick, P. (2009): C60 fullerene: a powerful antioxidant or a damaging agent? The importance of an in-depth material characterization prior to toxicity assays. Environ. Pollut., 157, 1134-1139. Read » (opens in new window)
  3. Kaiser, J.P., Krug, H.F., and Wick, P. (2009): Nanomaterial cell interactions: how do carbon nanotubes affect cell physiology? Nanomed., 4, 57-63. Read » (opens in new window)
  4. Belyanskaya, L., Weigel, S., Hirsch, C., Tobler, U., Krug, H.F., and Wick, P. (2009): Effects of carbon nanotubes on primary neurons and glial cells. Neurotoxicology, 30, 702-711. Read » (opens in new window)