Molecular Epidemiology Unit
Under the roof of the Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research the Molecular Epidemiology Unit contributes to identifying causal relationships between occupational and environmental, metabolic, immunologic and genetic factors and the occurrence of various diseases, in particular, cancers such as tumors of the upper aero-digestive tract, male germ cell cancer or childhood cancer, but also metabolic diseases like cardiovascular diseases or metabolic syndrome. It therefore establishes close connections to the Lifestyle-Related Disorders Unit with which it cooperates in certain projects.
The main research focus is on the investigation of molecular markers that are related to the risk of disease, in order to allow a precise and accurate estimation of exposures, intermediate changes or prognoses. Irradiation experiments in human fibroblasts from skin biopsies like in the BMBF-funded project ‘ISIBELA’ as well as microbiome and epigenetic analyses like in the EU-funded project ‘MyNewGut’ complete the research direction of the unit. The aims are to gain insights into the basic mechanisms of disease etiology as well as to the course of the disease. For these research approaches the Molecular Epidemiology Unit works closely with the BIPS BioBankas well as the Statistical Methods in Genetics and Life-Course Epidemiology Unit.
Current projects
Only currently running projects or those where publications are still in preparation or those that ended less than a year ago will be shown. The entries are sorted alphabetically.
- Association of black carbon particles and risk of pre-diabetes
- Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.Family)
- Intrinsic radiation sensitivity: identification of biological and epidemiological long-term effects (ISIBELA); Subproject C with the case-control study ‘cancer in childhood and molecular epidemiology (KiKme)’
- NFDI4Health - task force COVID-19: Better understanding the COVID-19 outbreak and its consequences through integrated and harmonised research efforts
- Pooled analysis of European case-control studies on the interaction of occupational carcinogens in the development of lung cancer
- The food metabolome as a novel concept to assess dietary exposures in children
Staff
Goerdten, Jantje
Tel.: +49 (0)421 218-56844
Fax: +49 (0)421 218-56821
goerdten(at)leibniz-bips.de
Marron, Manuela, Dr.
Tel.: +49 (0)421 218-56840
Fax: +49 (0)421 218-56821
marron(at)leibniz-bips.de
Nagrani, Rajini, Dr.
Tel.: +49 (0)421 218-56842
Fax: +49 (0)421 218-56821
nagrani(at)leibniz-bips.de
Yuan, Li
Tel.: +49 (0)421 218-56814
Fax: +49 (0)421 218-56821
yuan(at)leibniz-bips.de