Our research group has many years of research experience in the field of virus and cancer research as well as pharmaceutical research with human cells with a focus on liver cells. For several years we have also been active in the field of microalgae research. Thus, we have extensive experience in the production of Arthrospira platensis on a laboratory scale (2 l bioreactor) as well as on a technical scale (up to 500 l).

Our considerable expertise includes all common methods of cell culture, molecular biology and for the investigation of effects of natural products from microalgae, toxic substances or xenobiotics on various in vitro models.

In addition, our repertoire includes all methods for the investigation of cell metabolism, metabolic activity of liver enzymes, genotoxicity, cytotoxicity up to trace analysis of metabolites of xenobiotics.

We have standard cell culture and molecular biology laboratories of safety level 2, and equipment such as confocal laser scanning microscopy, STED microscopy, flow cytometry, trace analysis via HPLC, as well as equipment infrastructure for enzyme assays, platelet activation, DNA damage.