Publications

Bridging AI Advancements with Risk Assessment Needs: A Journey Towards Effective Use and Regulatory Acceptance

Kolesnyk S. , De Paula Souza J., Bearth A., Aicher L., Wilks M.F., Mosig A., Fritsche E.

Toxicology,  1 Jun 2026


ToxCastLite: A portable semantic evidence graph linking in vitro bioactivity, in vivo toxicity, and exposure-use context

Arif Dönmez, Oleksiy Nosov, Kristina Heck, Axel Mosig, Ellen Fritsche, Katharina Koch

bioRxiv,  19 May 2026


Oversmoothing as Representation Degeneracy in Neural Sheaf Diffusion

Arif Dönmez, Axel Mosig, Ellen Fritsche, Katharina Koch

arXiv preprint,  11 May 2026


Cannabis consumption is associated with altered steroid metabolism in young men

Mathieu, Galmiche M.; Meister, I.; Zufferey F., Rossier, M.F.; Rahban, R.; Senn, A.; Nef, S.; Boccard, J.; Rudaz, S.

A Nature Portfolio journal,  16 Apr 2026


Report on the 5th and 6th Mystery of Reactive Oxygen Species Conferences

Shihori Tanabe, Danielle Beaton, Richard A. Becker, Vinita Chauhan, Judy Choi, Eugene Choi, Alexander Cole, Marcus S. Cooke, Lucia Coppola, Maranda Esterhuizen, Julija Filipovska, Rex FitzGerald, Ellen Fritsche, Timothy W. Gant, Kalyan Gayen, Negin Hajizadeh, Nobuyuki Hamada, Virginia K. Hench, Osama Huzain, Travis Karschnik, Ioanna Katsiadaki, Young-Jun Kim, Cinzia La Rocca, Angela Mally, Elma Omeragic, Gladys Ouédraogo, Natalia Reyero, Alexandra Schaffert, You Song, Iva Sovadinova, Reyna Tao, Masaaki Tsukano, Dan Villeneuve, Ulla Vogel, Carole L. Yauk

Altex,  14 Apr 2026


Functional Mapping of Neurodevelopmental Disease Pathways to Key Neurodevelopmental Processes Represented in the Developmental Neurotoxicity In Vitro Testing Battery

Eliska Kuchovska, Kristina Bartmann, Georgea Raad, Mats Schade, Luiz Ladeira, Arif Dönmez, Jördis Klose, Nicolai Görts, Denis Polozij, Lynn-Christin Saborowski, Farina Bendt, Bernard Staumont, Liesbet Geris, Katharina Koch, Ellen Fritsche

Advanced Science Wiley,  14 Apr 2026


Early-Stage Quality – Late-Stage Confidence: Neural Induction Quality Control as a Key to Reproducible MEA-based Neurotoxicity Assays

Ilka Scharkin, Jochen Dobner, Nadine Pierchala, Kristina Bartmann, Ulrike Hübenthal, Farina Bendt, Gabriele Brockerhoff, Andrea Rossi, Ellen Fritsche, Julia Tigges, Katharina Koch

NeuroToxicology,  20 Mar 2026


Hormonal changes in professional printers exposed to phthalates suggesting potential disturbances of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis

Tiberiu M. Nita , Sonja A. Wrobel , David Vernez , Holger M. Koch , Pascal Wild , Fanny Zufferey, Serge Rudaz , Ludwig Stenz , Alex Odermatt , Nancy B. Hopf

Environmental Research,  15 Feb 2026


Advancing the implementation of artificial intelligence in regulatory frameworks for chemical safety assessment by defining robust readiness criteria

Souza, J. de P., Blum, J., Maran, U., Sild, S., Dawson, L., Čavoški, A., Holden, L., Lee, R., Karnel, V., Meusburger, L., Fraize-Frontier, S., Walsh, A., Rivière, G., Raitano, G., Roncaglioni, A., Di Consiglio, E., Tcheremenskaia, O., Bossa, C., Wendt-Rasch, L., Puzyn, T., Fritsche, E.

Front Artif Intell.,  11 Feb 2026


Bisphenol TMC exhibits greater estrogenic activity than Bisphenol A and three other structural analogues exemplified by higher estrogen receptor α-mediated gene expression and breast cancer cell proliferation

Joos, F. L., van Diest, R. E., Smieško, M., Jäger, M.-C., Kley, M., Odermatt, A., Bouitbir, J.

Elsevier ScienceDirect,  11 Feb 2026