Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors

German research institute at Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1913 as a workplace physiology institute and now part of the Leibniz Association and attached to the technical university of Dortmund. Researches the effects of work on health with departments for toxicology, ergonomics, immunology and psychology and neuroscience, studies chemical and metal exposure, liver toxicity, cell systems and alternatives to animal testing and human performance and ageing at work, and runs its own analytical, cell culture and human study laboratories.