Exposome-NL
Professor of Epidemiology Joline Beulens (VUmc) is co-applicant of the Gravity grant for the Exposome-NL project of which Professor Roel Vermeulen of the University of Utrecht is the coordinator. Together with scientists from the universities of Leiden and Groningen, the research team will focus on exposomes. Where you live and work, what you eat and drink, how often you exercise, and other choices that you make in your (daily) life influence your health. Whether or not you develop certain chronic diseases is in fact conditional upon these factors for seventy percent. The combination of these factors is called the exposome. We still know little about that exposome and therefore about the development of chronic diseases. In the Exposome-NL project, scientists will apply innovative techniques to investigate which factors of the exposome are important for health and how these work.
