Congratulations to our new Docent, Alexander Hedbrant
We would like to congratulate one of our researchers, Alexander Hedbrant, whom was newly appointed Docent in Medical Science with a specialization in Biomedicine at Örebro University, Sweden and gave his inaugural lecture titled Respirable crystalline silica dust: Novel research on an occupational hazard since ancient times.
Alexander's research focus on understanding how occupational exposures, mainly inhaled particles, affect the lungs, and biological systems such as inflammation, to cause disease. Ongoing studies examine for example how occupational crystalline silica dust affect biomarkers in exhaled breath samples, and if nanoparticle exposures in industrial metal 3D-printing is a cause of concern for the workers' health.
The goal is to contribute with a better understanding of the exposures per se and the toxicological mechanism they induce, and to detect early signs of harmful exposure, before development of chronic disease.