Exposum

The ExposUM Institute is an initiative of the University of Montpellier and its partners aimed at establishing an open, off-campus institute of reference for research, training, and science-society interaction on the environmental determinants of human health.Winner of the call for projects ExcellenceS (PIA4) call for projects and supported by the Occitanie Region, ExposUM is funded to the tune of €46.4 million over the period 2022-2030.

The exposome refers to the sum of lifetime exposures to environmental and social factors whose specific effects, combined with individuals' intrinsic characteristics, underlie health and 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

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

GATe: Gather people to Generate, Apply, and Transmit knowledge

Axis 1: Generating knowledge: accelerating the acquisition of basic knowledge in a coordinated, interdisciplinary, and non-segmented manner

Axis 2: Applying knowledge: defining global mitigation strategies adapted to the local context and encouraging innovation. Learn more

Axis 3: Transmitting 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 Council 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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