2019-10-06 · Helen Strandt, PhD Student, has been awarded for Best Talk at the 16th International Workshop on Langerhans Cells, which took place in Mainz/Budenheim from 3 to 6 October 2019. Helen presented research data on Antigen expression in Langerhans cells prevents allergic sensitization and lung inflammation (abstract see here).

2019-09-16 · The 12th International Particle Toxicology Conference (IPTC) was hosted this year at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, with Albert Duschl as Head of the Organizing Committee. This meeting series brings together experts in all areas of particle toxicology – from engineered nanoparticles to volcanic fly ash – to discuss developments of the field. The 11th IPTC took place 2016 in Singapore, the 13th IPTC is planned for 2022 in Santa Fe. We are proud that we could welcome around 140 colleagues from all over the world to the Salzburg edition of this prestigious meeting series!

The conference covered basic research issues, but had a strong focus on applications of particle toxicology, which are in work place safety, environmental safety, consumer safety, medical and diagnostic developments and other fields. A focus of the Salzburg meeting were the challenges to translate knowledge derived from particle safety research into regulation and legislation, which is now a main issue in the field. The first IPTC in Austria has contributed to developing solutions for the benefit of workers, consumers, patients and environment.

For more information, see http://iptc2019.eu.

2019-07-29 · Iris Gratz, member of the ACBN focus program of the University of Salzburg, and colleagues have discovered a population of human immune cells in the blood that appear to have everything in common with infection-fighting T cells isolated from the skin. The findings were published in the journal Science Immunology and were featured on the July cover of the journal.