Julia Huchthausen

Dr. Julia Huchthausen is a Researcher in the Cell Toxicology team at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig. Her work focuses on optimizing in vitro bioassays and understanding chemical toxicity mechanisms. Since April 2024, she has contributed to the Panoramix project, developing high-content imaging assays for mitochondrial and genotoxicity studies in human and fish cell lines.

Education:

• Master's in Biochemistry from Leipzig University (completed 2019)
• PhD (2024) on improving in vitro bioassays, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 PrecisionTox project.

Research Interests: Her studies address abiotic stability of chemicals, baseline toxicity prediction, and metabolite identification of novel psychoactive substances. She has collaborated with the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (funded by DAAD) to quantify wastewater metabolites.

Grants & Collaborations:

• PrecisionTox (EU Horizon 2020)
• Panoramix project (mitochondrial toxicity assays)

Labs/Teams: Core member of the Cell Toxicology team led by Prof. Dr. Beate Escher, contributing to tools like MLinvitroTox for high-throughput toxicity prediction.