Gregor Luthe

Gregor Luthe (born October 19, 1970 in Epe ) is a German chemist , toxicologist , nanotechnologist , inventor and entrepreneur .

life and work

Gregor Luthe was the only son of Ewald Luthe and Käthe Luthe, b. Böcker, born. His father was a bricklayer and later a Hafner , his mother worked as a spinner . In 1986 he began his Abitur at the St. Antonius Missionary School in Bardel near Bad Bentheim .

From 1990 to 1995 he studied chemistry, biology and physics at the University of Münster , where he specialized in fluorinated analogues of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds (PAHs) . He completed his studies with a diploma. In 2002 he received his PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam . From 1996 he was also a lecturer for the Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede. As a Marie Curie scholarship holder of the Council of Europe, Luthe went to Trondheim (Norway) in 2002 , where he did research at the NTNU and worked in the private sector as technical director and partner in the Chiron company . In 2005 he went to Berkeley as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to study toxicology and to the University of Iowa in the USA, where he still supervises doctoral students as a visiting professor .

After a few months as a lecturer at the University of Hawaii in Hilo , he went back to Europe, where he accepted another position as a lecturer at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede in the Netherlands . From 2007 to 2008, Luthe also worked as a lecturer at Jacobs University Bremen . In 2010 Gregor Luthe founded the company Wind plus Sonne GmbH .

On February 1, 2012, Gregor Luthe was appointed head of the new Chair of Nanotechnology (NanoBioInterface) by Saxion. The chair deals with the development and application of techniques for the production of NanoBio interfaces, which are essential for medical, biological, toxicological and chemical applications, e.g. B. Lab-on-a-Chip devices.

He examined the toxicology of PCB and PBDE .

In mid-January 2014, Luthe organized the Euregional with the help of the "Alumni Nanotechnology Saxion" (ANS), the Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the institutes MESA + (Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente ) and CeNTech (University of Münster) under the patronage of the Euregio in Enschede Conference of Applied Nanotechnology (ECAN 2014).

In 2014 Gregor Luthe founded the company Smart Material Printing BV with a former student , which deals with the creation of materials for 3D printing technology and antibacterial surfaces.

In September 2014, Gregor Luthe was involved in the start of the cooperation between the University of Twente and the Saxion University of Applied Sciences, which is intended to promote not only joint research in the field of nanotechnology, but also the first Dutch master's degree in nanotechnology.

In 2014 Gregor Luthe founded the company Nanobay - NB GmbH with Silke Schäfers . In February 2015 Gregor Luthe left his chair for nanotechnology at Saxion in Enschede to concentrate on running his company.

Awards and memberships

• 2002: Marie Curie fellowship from the Council of Europe
• 2005: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2007: Foreign tutor of the Society of German Chemists for the Netherlands
• 2013: Voted one of the 15 most inspiring professors in the Netherlands by the Dutch magazine ScienceGuide

Fonts (selection)

• 1995: Fluorinated analogs of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds as internal standards in high pressure liquid chromatography , diploma thesis at the University of Münster
• 2002: Metabolism of 1-fluoropyrene and pyrene in marine flatfish and terrestrial isopods ( Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2002, pp. 221-229, doi: 10.1016 / S1382-6689 (02) 00093-5 )
• 2003: Monofluorinated PAHs: Standards for Environmental Analysis and Mechanistic Studies , dissertation at the Frije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 2005: Characterization of monofluorinated polycyclic aromatic compounds by ¹ H, ¹³ C and ¹⁹ F NMR spectroscopy . In: Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry , Volume 43, Issue 7, 2005, pp. 588-594. doi : 10.1002 / mrc.1584
• 2006: Synthesis of fluorinated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (F-PBDEs) as internal standards for environmental analysis . doi: 10.1016 / j.chemosphere.2005.12.010
• 2006: Monofluorinated Analogues of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers as Analytical Standards: Synthesis, NMR, and GC-MS Characterization and Molecular Orbital Studies. In: Environ. Sci. Technol. , 2006, 40 (9), pp. 3023-3029. doi : 10.1021 / es052410z
• 2007: Influence of fluoro-substitution on the planarity of 4-chlorobiphenyl (PCB 3). In: Acta Crystallographica , Section B, Volume 63, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 319-327. doi : 10.1107 / S0108768106054255
• 2008: Effects of fluoro substitution on 4-bromodiphenyl ether (PBDE 3). In: Acta Crystallographica Section B , Volume 64, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 108-119. doi : 10.1107 / S0108768107067079
• 2008: Xenobiotic Geometry and Media pH Determine Cytotoxicity through Solubility . In: Chem. Res. Toxicol. , 2008, 21 (5), pp. 1017-1027. doi : 10.1021 / tx700214p
• 2008: The three-dimensional structure of 3,3 ′, 4,4′-tetrachlorobiphenyl, a dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) ( Chemosphere, Volume 70, Issue 9, February 2008, pp. 1694–1698, doi: 10.1016 /j.chemosphere.2007.07.017 )
• 2008: Receptor interactions by polybrominated diphenyl ethers versus polychlorinated biphenyls: A theoretical structure – activity ( Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 25, Issue 2, March 2008, pp. 202–210, doi: 10.1016 / j.etap.2007.10.017 )
• 2009: Toxicology, Oxidation of 4-Chlorobiphenyl Metabolites to Electrophilic Species by Prostaglandin H Synthase. In: Chem. Res. Toxicol. , 2009, 22 (1), pp. 64-71. doi : 10.1021 / tx800300t
• 2009: Toxicology, Innovative Application of Fluoro Tagging To Trace Airborne Particulate and Gas-Phase Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Exposures. In: Chem. Res. Toxicol. , 2009, 22 (1), pp. 179-186. doi : 10.1021 / tx8003032
• 2009: Monofluorinated analogues of polychlorinated biphenyls (F-PCBs): Synthesis using the Suzuki-coupling, characterization, specific properties and intended use ( Chemosphere, Volume 77, Issue 9, November 2009, pp. 1242-1248, doi: 10.1016 / j .chemosphere.2006.02.029 )
• 2010: Acute toxicity of 3,3 ′, 4,4 ′, 5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB 126) in male Sprague – Dawley rats: Effects on hepatic oxidative stress, glutathione and metals status ( Environment International, Volume 36, Issue 8, November 2010, pp. 918–923, doi: 10.1016 / j.envint.2009.11.002 )
• 2010: Observation of an unusual electronically distorted semiquinone radical of PCB metabolites in the active site of prostaglandin H synthase-2. ( Chemosphere, Volume 81, Issue 11, December 2010, pp. 1501–1508 )
• 2014 Toxicity assessment of air-delivered particle-bound polybrominated diphenyl ethers ( Toxicology, Volume 317, 20 March 2014, pp. 31-39 )
• 2015 Mechanistic insights into the specificity of human cytosolic sulfotransferase 2A1 (hSULT2A1) for hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls through the use of fluoro-tagged probes . In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research , Volume 23, February 2016, Issue 3, pp. 2119–2127. doi : 10.1007 / s11356-015-4886-8
• 2015 PAMAM dendrimers as nano carriers to investigate inflammatory responses induced by pulmonary exposure of PCB metabolites in Sprague-Dawley rats . In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research , Volume 23, February 2016, Issue 3, pp. 2128–2137. doi : 10.1007 / s11356-015-5022-5
• 2016 With O. Wangpradit u. a .: Breaking the dogma: PCB-derived semiquinone free radicals do not form covalent adducts with DNA, GSH, and amino acids. In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research , Volume 23, February 2016, Issue 3, pp. 2138–2147. doi : 10.1007 / s11356-015-5007-4

Trivia

As a West German youth, Gregor Luthe traveled to the GDR two weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall . Luthe experienced November 9, 1989 during the STASI interrogation. He did not find out about the events of that day until the day he was released, the following morning.

Web links

• Gregor Luthe at the University of Iowa , Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology (English)
• Gregor Luthe on Research gate (English)
• Publications by Gregor Luthe at PubFacts Scientific Publication Data (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former Diploma and Master Students :: Current Group-Alumni. University of Münster, Research Group of Prof. Dr. Jan Andersson, accessed August 23, 2015 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Introduction of Gregor Luthe (presentation) . Archived from the original on October 31, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 31, 2016. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Humboldt Network, query details: Dr. Gregor Luthe. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung / Foundation, accessed on August 17, 2015 . 
4. ^ Biography Gregor Luthe / short biography Gregor Luthe. Saxion University of Applied Sciences, archived from the original on June 25, 2014 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 . 
5. ^ Stefan Werding: Professor Gregor Luthe: Better Gronau than Berkeley. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. September 20, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2018 (German). 
6. ↑ Portret: Gregor Luthe and Paul Borm - Twee ondernemende nanotechnologists over het beter used van kennis en kunde / Portrait: Gregor Luthe and Paul Borm - Two enterprising nanotechnologists on the better use of knowledge and science. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Thematic Impulse, HTSM. SIA, Stichting Innovatie Alliantie, February 2013, pp. 30–35 , archived from the original on March 21, 2018 ; Retrieved March 21, 2018 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Gregor Luthe. The University of Iowa, accessed August 10, 2015 . 
8. ^ First nano-lectoraat in Nederland. ScienceGuide.nl, February 10, 2012, accessed on August 10, 2015 (Dutch). 
9. ↑ Martin Brock: Conference in Enschede: On the way to the nano-age. Westfälische Nachrichten, January 15, 2014, accessed on October 20, 2016 (German). 
10. ^ Saxion and University of Twente join forces in nano research. (No longer available online.) University of Twente, September 19, 2014, archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; accessed on October 20, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Vertrek lector Gregor Luthe. (No longer available online.) Saxion University of Applied Sciences, February 16, 2015, archived from the original October 31, 2016 ; Retrieved October 18, 2016 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Foreign tutors . Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker eV, accessed on August 17, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Gregory Luthe: meest inspirerende docent van Nederland. Saxion University of Applied Sciences, March 5, 2013, archived from the original on August 25, 2017 ; Retrieved November 15, 2016 (Dutch). 
14. ↑ "Just try it out" Dr. Gregor Luthe is valued by the students at Saxion University for his open manner. Westfälische Nachrichten, May 27, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2016 . 
15. ^ Gregor Luthe: Everything was headless. ScienceGuide.nl, accessed on August 23, 2015 (German / Dutch).