Final Products

Final Summeries

Ph. D. Michel L. Aubert:

Role of environmental endocrine disruptors including smoking-derived toxicants, in the aetiology of intrauterine growth retardation and its later consequences such as disorders in brain development and adult-onset obesity

 

Final Summary Aubert

 

Dr. med. Cathrin Brisken:

Endocrine disruptors and breast carcinogenesis; a new mouse model to assess estrogen receptor-dependent and independent effects in vivo

 

Final Summary Brisken

 

Dr. sc.nat ETH Thomas Bucheli:

Environmental exposure toextrogenic mycotoxins

 

Final Summary Bucheli

 

Prof. Dr. Rik Eggen:

Mechanisms of action of (xeno)estrogens on the early development and differentiation of brain and gonads in zebrafish (EXBRA)

 

Final Summary Eggen

 

PD Dr. Karl Fent:

Hormonal activity of UV screens in aquatic ecosystems (HAUS)

 

Final Summary Fent

 

Ecological risk assessment of UV filters

 

Final Summary Fent 2

 

Dr. René Gälli:

Integrative mass flow model for endocrine disruptors in Switzerland - model development, risk assessment and risk management

 

Final Summary Gaelli

 

Integrative risk assessment for endocrine disruptors in Switzerland

 

Final Summary Gaelli 2

  

Dr. sc.nat ETH Andreas C. Gerecke:

Endocrine disrupting chemicals in the air- linking emission processes and transport phenomena with effets in wildlife and humans (ENDAIR)

 

Final Summary Gerecke

 

Prof. Marc Germond
Drop of male fertility in various geographic regions of Switzerland: Investigation of
the critical parameters usable for prospective repeated evaluations

 

Final Summary Germond

 

Prof. Walter Giger:
Phenolic and brominated contaminants in wastewaters and in the aquatic environment (PHEBRO)

 

Evaluation of Aquatic Environmental Estrogens with Passive Sampling - EPSA

 

Final Summary Giger

 

Prof. Walter Giger, Dr. Hans-Peter  Kohler:

Phenolic substances with estrogenic disruptor potential as contaminants in the aquatic environment (PHENCON)

 

Final Summary Kohler Giger

 

Prof. Patricia Holm:

Endocrine disruption in Switzerland. Assessment of fish exposure and effects (SAFE)

 

Final Summary Holm

 

Dr. Kurt Hostettmann

Phytoestrogens in food, food complements and medicinal plants: content and pharmacological relevance

 

Final Summary Hostettmann

 

Dr. Martin Kohler:

Brominated flame retardants and their transformation products: Occurrence in the environment and human exposure to these endocrine active components (FLARE)

 

Final Summary Kohler

 

Dr. Martin Kohler:

Brominated flame retardants and other endocrine disrupting chemicals in the ecosystem of Thunersee - environmental fate and correlation to biological effects (FLEET)

 

Final Summary Kohler (Fleet)

 

Dr. Leo Morf:
Dynamic substance flow analysis model for selected brominated flame retardants as a basis for decision making on risk reduction measures (FABRO)

 

Final Summary Morf

 

Prof. Hanspeter Nägeli:

Biological activity of complex mixtures of endocrine disruptors

 

Final Summary Naegeli

 

Prof. Serge Nef:

Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals: Effects on the male urogenital system

 

Final Summary Nef

 

Prof. Alex Odermatt:

Disruption of Glucocorticoid- and Mineralocorticoid Receptor-Mediated Responses by Environmental Chemicals

 

Final Summary Odermatt

 

Prof. Didier Picard:

Signaling of estrogenic endocrine disruptors through membrane-associated receptors

 

Final Summary Picard

 

Prof. Manfred Reinecke:

Are organisational effects of estrogens on sexual differentiation development and growth of fish mediated via the Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) system?

 

Final Summary Reinecke

 

Prof. Sandro Rusconi:

Molecular responses to extrogenic endocrine disruptors

 

PD Dr. Margret Schlumpf:

UV filters: Mechanisms of developmental toxicity in mammalian brain and human exposure

 

Final Summary Schlumpf 1

 

Human exposure to endocrine disruptors and effective tissue levels of UV filters in experimental animals

 

Final Summary Schlumpf 2

 

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schorderet:

Identification of genetic predispositions to oglio-astheno-teratospermia

 

Prof. Helmut Segner:

Gonad malformations in withefish (Coregonus lavaretus) in Lake Thun: are they induced by endocrine disruptors?

 

Final Summary Segner

 

Dr. Marc J.-F Suter:

Development of chemical sensors and affinity-directed fractionation

technique

 

Final Summary Suter

 

Prof. Joseph Tarradellas:

Endocrine disruption in soil invertebrates: assessing multigeneration effects and developing a proteomic biomarker approach

 

Final Summary Tarradellas

 

Dr. Angelo Vedani:

Internet application for the estimation of the binding affinity of small molecules towards the estrogen receptor in silico

 

Final Summary Vedani

 

Prof. Walter Wahli:

Environmental disruptor actions in live cells and animals: Elucidating molecular mechanisms of PPAR pathway alterations

 

Final Summary Wahli

 

Prof. Dr. Renato Zenobi:

Development of a Mass Spectrometry-Based Assay for the Analysis and Screening of Endocrine Disruptors

 

Final Summary Zenobi