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 […]
The fourth HEAP Bring Your Own Data workshop
The fourth HEAP Bring Your Own Data (BYOD#4) workshop, held in Helsinki from 20th to 22nd November 2024, enabled hands-on collaboration between HEAP exposome researchers, software developers, IT infrastructure specialists and legal experts to test and demonstrate the HEAP platform in practical exposome research. During the workshop, researchers uploaded and analysed datasets from the Swedish […]
FInal episode of “Swamped?” – The Time Machine….
Faced with an algorithm that can’t be commercialised, and patient data that can’t be reused for a new study because the consent forms were badly designed, Data Gator resorts to desperate measures… Meanwhile, FAIR frog completes their Data Management Survival Guide with the help of legal expert Evert-Ben Van Veen, and gets some more practical […]
What’s on the agenda of BYOD#3?
What’s on the agenda of the HEAP BYOD#3? To prepare for the workshop, attendees have uploaded data and analysis pipelines to the Hopsworks informatics platform. The data sources are: Cervical Cancer Screening Cohort (Karolinska Institute) Finnish Maternity Cohort (University of Oulu) HPV Vaccination Cohort (Tampere University Hospital) Consumer cohort (Statens Serum Institute) Wearable Data Collection […]
Episode 2 of “Swamped? A data management survival guide for researchers.”
Join FAIR frog and Data Gator in this 5-minute video as they reach the end of their first joint research project and submit their paper for publication. But there\’s a problem…. Data Gator has escaped from the swamp, but it looks like he forgot to bring his metadata with him…. As Data Gator and FAIR […]
HEAP symposium – Ethics, law and big data
How can the results of exposome research further the right to health for all? And how can this be achieved in an ethical way, respecting the rights of those whose data and tissue are being used? In his contribution to the HEAP symposium highlights series, Evert-Ben Van Veen, a lawyer specialising in health and privacy […]
HEAP symposium – Infrastructures for exposome research
What does the future hold for exposome research infrastructures in Europe? Jana Klánová is Professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and coordinator of the ESFRI Research Infrastructure for human exposome (EIRENE). In her contribution to the HEAP Symposium highlights series, she presents EIRENE RI (Research Infrastructure for EnvIRonmental Exposure assessmeNt […]
HEAP symposium – “Biobanking and the exposome”
As part of HEAP\’s \”Symposium Highlights\” series, Kurt Zatloukal, Head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine, Medical University Graz, and Director of BBMRI.at, Austria, discusses how biobanks could add value to exposome research in a 15-minute presentation. Biobanks have expertise in collecting, preserving and providing access to biosamples, as well as processing […]
The HEAP interview – Ville Pimenoff on data cohorts
We talk to Ville Pimenoff, Senior Research Fellow at Karolinska Institute in Sweden who is the PI of the Finnish population-wise cohort data that will be included in the HEAP informatics platform as part of its testing and pilot phase. Q: Tell us about the cohorts that you are working with A: The Finnish HPV vaccination […]
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 […]