EHEN calls for policy action on environmental and health risks
The European Human Exposome Network (EHEN) has released a policy brief urging EU policymakers to take action to address the rising public health crisis caused by pollution, chemicals and environmental degradation. The policy brief highlights key research findings emphasising that environmental factors, from air pollution to chemical exposure, significantly contribute to the burden of non-communicable diseases. It […]
How personal exposome monitors could change healthcare
A HEAP abstract presented at the EHEN Scientific Meeting 2023 in Leuven, Belgium. By capturing and analysing the bacteria, virus and fungi that surround us on a daily basis, wearable sensors could provide personalised predictions of how likely we are to develop certain diseases, or to provide insights to ways we could safeguard our health. […]
HEAP symposium – Personal exposome profiling
Can we prove that someone has been exposed to certain chemicals that have affected their health? In his contribution to the HEAP symposium highlights series, Michael Snyder, Director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University, presents his research into individualized environmental exposures. The research compared thousands of chemical and biological components […]
HEAP symposium – “Measuring the exposome – delusion or next frontier?”
Is it even possible to measure the exposome? In his contribution to the HEAP Symposium highlights series, Benedikt Warth, Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and founder of the ‘Global Exposomics and Biomonitoring Laboratory’, presents workflows for omic-scale investigations of toxicants. The example he presents is based on liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and […]