Dirk Höfer

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Dirk Hoefer (2010)

Dirk Höfer (born December 29, 1961 in Bendorf am Rhein , Germany ) is a German human biologist and researcher with a focus on textile-related health effects (textile physiology).

Life

Dirk Höfer obtained his diploma in human biology (theoretical medicine) at the University of Marburg in 1989 . From 1989 to 2001 he was a scientific assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg. In 1992 he received his PhD in the field of the structure and function of inner ear hair cells. In 1998 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg for the subject of cell biology and anatomy and continued his education as a specialist in anatomy. In 2001 he moved to the Hohenstein Institute . Since 2004 he has been Director of the Life Science Department Hygiene, Environment & Medicine and since 2010 Deputy Head of the Hohenstein Institute for Textile Innovation gGmbH. In 2009 he was appointed adjunct professor by the Freiburg University of Education , where he works at Faculty 3, Institute for Everyday Culture, Exercise and Health. In the course of his 24-year research career (1989–2013) he worked on structure / function relationships between materials and living systems. He developed medical textiles with protective and therapeutic functions and refined methods and models to investigate the effect of materials in contact with humans or microorganisms. For this purpose, he developed special in vitro cell systems and field tests to make material surfaces usable for use in medicine and hygiene, such as B. a standardized, biomimetic model of the human skin, with the help of which the physiological properties of materials, clothing or cosmetics can be assessed and optimized under laboratory conditions, as well as neurophysiological measuring methods for the perception and acceptance of body-friendly products by test persons.

Dirk Höfer is a reviewer for national and international specialist journals. Through numerous lectures and more than 100 publications as well as the teaching assignment at the University of Education in Freiburg, he was able to advance the teaching of health-promoting everyday clothing and therapeutic / preventive medical textiles for maintaining health in the scientific world.

Areas of activity

  • Clothing and health
  • Structure / function relationships between (flexible) materials and living systems
  • Development of therapeutic and preventive medical products
  • Biofunctionalization of material surfaces
  • Sensory and perception on the skin
  • Interactions of materials with humans and microorganisms
  • Safety and effectiveness of functional medical textiles ( textile hygiene )

Publications

Books

  • 1992 Investigations into the organization of actin in the auditory inner ear epithelium and the retina in the chicken (dissertation)
  • 1998 Immunocytochemical characterization of chemoreceptive epithelial cell types of the gastrointestinal tract and the vomeronasal organ (habilitation)

Technical article

  • Taste receptor-like cells in the gut identified by expression of α-gustducin. In: PNAS 93: 6631-6634 (1996)
  • From cytoskeleton to polarity and chemoreception in the gut epithelium. In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 859: 75-84 (1998)
  • Medical Textiles and Skin Equivalents. In: Journal of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management 3 (2): 1-3 (2003)
  • Sorting of actin isoforms in chicken auditory hair cells. In: Journal of Cell Science 110: 765-770 (1997)
  • Chemosensory perception in the gut. In: News Physiol Sci 14: 18-23 (1999)
  • Three different actin assemblies occur in every hair cell: Each contains a specific actin crosslinking protein. In: Journal of Cell Biology 112: 641-651 (1991)
  • Biologized textile implants for personalized regenerative medicine. In: German Journal for Clinical Research 1/2 2011: 22-23 (2011)
  • Evaluation of the Tissue Toxicity of antiseptics by the Hen's egg test on the Chorioallantoic membrane (HETCAM). In: European Journal of Medical Research 15: 1-6 (2010)
  • Infection risk by dermatophytes during storage and after domestic laundry and their temperature-dependent inactivation. In: Mycopathologia 171: 43-49 (2011)
  • Antimicrobial active clothes display no adverse effects on the ecological balance of the healthy human skin microflora. In: ISRN Dermatology; Volume 2011, Article ID 369603, doi : 10.5402 / 2011/369603 (2011)
  • Effects of cigarette smoke residues from textiles on fibroblasts, neurocytes and zebrafish embryos and nicotine permeation through human skin. In: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 214 (5): 384-391 (2011)
  • What role do textile surfaces play in the infection chain? In: Hygiene & Medicine 10: 400-403 (2012)
  • A model of the transmission of microorganisms in a public setting and its correlation to pathogen infection risks. In Journal of Applied Microbiology 112 (3): 614-21 (2012)
  • Thinking behind clothing - The effect of clothing systems on mental performance. In: Arab Medical Hygiene 4: 11-17 (2012)
  • Use of textile heating elements in healthcare. In: Technical Textiles 6: 276 (2009)
  • A novel in situ self-dissolving needle web based on medicated cellulose hollow fibers with drug delivery features. In: The Open Medical Devices Journal 3: 1 - 8 (2012)
  • 45S5 Bioglass®-based 3D-scaffolds seeded with human adipose tissue-derived stem cells (hASC) induce in vivo vascularization in the CAM angiogenesis assay. In: Tissue Engineering Part A: Epub (2013)
  • Book contribution: Nonwovens for hygiene. Book contribution nonwovens, ISBN 3-527-29535-6 : 481-488 (2000)
  • Magazine Articles: Health and Clothing. In: Teaching Biology 352 (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dirk Höfer elected deputy director of the institute
  2. ↑ # 93; = 726692 heads careers - Hohenstein Institute: Two professorships in Freiburg ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. TextilWirtschaft 27 of July 2, 2009, page 195  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.textilwirtschaft.de
  3. ^ Freiburg University of Education, Institute for Everyday Culture, Exercise and Health, members
  4. ↑ High-tech textiles in the operating theater - transfer time still too long ( memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ita.rwth-aachen.de
  5. ↑ Smoking - Babies as passive smokers
  6. ↑ How does our brain react to textiles
personal data
SURNAME Höfer, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human biologist and researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendorf am Rhein , Germany