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The ExposUM Institute is an initiative of the University of Montpellier and its partners aimed at establishing a leading, off-campus, interdisciplinary institute for the study, education, and science-society interaction regarding the environmental determinants of human health. A recipient of the ExcellenceS (PIA4) call for proposals and supported by the Occitanie Region, ExposUM is funded to the tune of €46.4 million for the period 2022–2030. The exposome refers to the totality of lifelong exposures to environmental and social factors whose specific effects, combined with individuals’ intrinsic characteristics, underpin health as well as the onset, progression, and severity of infectious and noncommunicable human diseases. In this sense, it is the environmental counterpart to the genome, with which it interacts throughout an individual’s lifetime. Visit the ExposUM Institute website Calls for Proposals Objective To provide an innovative conceptual framework for studying multiple environmental risks and their combined effects GATe: Gather people to Generate, Apply, Transmit knowledge Priority Area 1: Generate knowledge: accelerate the acquisition of basic knowledge in a coordinated, interdisciplinary, and non-segmented manner Priority Area 2: Apply knowledge: define comprehensive mitigation strategies tailored to the local context and encourage innovation. Learn more Axis 3: Transmitting knowledge: promoting the education of the next generation of scientists Organization Steering Committee (CoDir): Pascal Demoly (chair), Aurélie Binot, Charlotte Boullé, Mircea Sofonea. Project Manager: Elodie Suttling. Scientific and Strategic Advisory Board (COSS): Jacques Mercier (chair), Amaria Baghdadli, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Eric Delaporte, Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon, Hélène Fenet, Sylvain Gandon, Brice Laurent, Coumba Toure Kane, Alain Lacampagne, Laurence Lachaud, Nadine Laguette, Delphine Muriaux, Denis Pesche, Andrei Turtoi, Nathalie Vachiery, Muriel Vayssier-Tarissat, Laurent Visier. Research al Guidance and Evaluation Council (COER): Mircea Sofonea (chair), Anne-Muriel Arigon, Aurélie Binot, Christophe Boete, Charlotte Boullé, Antoine Claessens, Sylvie Claeysen, Constance Delaby, Gauthier Dobigny, François Favier, Olivier Gimenez, Antoine Gross, Rodolphe Hamel, Luciana Kase-Tanno, Antonio Maraver, Jérôme Poli, Gwenn Pulliat, Anatja Samouelian, Annelise Tran, Aurore Vicet. Get project updates directly: Subscribe to the mailing list Partners

Jean-Philippe Pin, a research director at the Institute of Functional Genomics (IGF) in Montpellier, was awarded the Lamonica Prize this year for his work in molecular pharmacology, which is opening up new therapeutic avenues for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.