Who’s bringing the data? Meet the HEAP “Personas”

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Report from the Bring Your Own Data workshop: One of the aims of the Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) workshop was to understand more about the people who will use the Human Exposome Assessment Platform (HEAP) once it is completed. After all, knowing your audience is the key to good design. The BYOD participants, which […]

Prepare to test! HEAP’s first Bring Your Own Data workshop

The partners in the HEAP Consortia will gather for a three-day, virtual Hackathon event from December 16-18 2020. The event marks the end of the first year of the HEAP project, and will take a hands on, \”Bring Your Own Data\” approach. Participants include IT and ethical experts, and data providers from some of Europe\’s […]

The HEAP interview – Allison Zhang on Personal Exposome Monitors (PEMs)

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We talk to Allison Zhang, a postdoctoral scholar who is working on a HEAP project to pilot continuous personal exposome profiling of 100 volunteers during their pregnancies. She is part of a team at Stanford University, led by Michael Snyder, that has been focusing on improving the design of wearable Personal Exposome Monitors (PEMs) and multi-omic profiling.  […]

Pointing the way to ethical, reusable exposome data

The launch of the Data Management Plan at the end of May 2020 is a significant milestone for HEAP. Developed by the team at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, who are leading the delivery of HEAP’s Data Interoperability and Sharing Work Package, the Data Management Plan sets out how the cohort data sourced from wearable […]

Stockholm: Karolinska Institutet hosts the HEAP kick-off meeting

Two intensive days of presentations and planning marked the official launch of the HEAP project on 13 and 14 January 2020. Held at Karolinska Institutet, the home of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Sweden’s largest medical university, the meeting was a welcome opportunity for representatives from the 11 HEAP partners to begin […]