Exposum

The ExposUM Institute is an initiative of the University of Montpellier and its partners aimed at establishing a leading, cross-disciplinary, off-campus institute dedicated to the study, education, and science-society interaction regarding the environmental determinants of human health.Winner of the call for proposals ExcellenceS (PIA4) 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 sum of an individual’s lifetime exposures to environmental and social factors, whose specific effects—combined with the individual’s intrinsic characteristics—underpin health as well as the onset, progression, and severity of infectious and noncommunicable diseases in humans. In this sense, it is the environmental counterpart to the genome, with which it interacts throughout an individual’s lifetime.

Objective

To provide an innovative conceptual framework for studying multiple environmental risks and their combined effects

GATe: Bringing people together to generate, apply, and share knowledge

Priority Area 1: Generating knowledge: accelerating the acquisition of foundational knowledge through a coordinated, non-segmented interdisciplinary approach

Priority 2: Applying knowledge: developing comprehensive mitigation strategies tailored to the local context and encouraging innovation. Learn more

Priority 3: Sharing Knowledge: promoting the education of the next generation of scientists

Organization

Executive Committee (CoDir): PascalDemoly (Chair), Aurélie Binot, Charlotte Boullé, Mircea Sofonea.

Project Manager: ElodieSuttling.

Scientific and Strategic Advisory Board (COSS): JacquesMercier (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 Guidance and Evaluation Committee Research COER): MirceaSofonea (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.

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