Mission

Background and Relevance of Exposome Research in Austria and Europe

It has been demonstrated that environmental exposure plays an important role in the growing incidences of non-communicable diseases. According to current information, about 25% of the overall disease burden is caused by environmental factors and this figure is expected to grow. European populations are exposed to a range of chemicals and mixtures through their diet, products, water, air, indoor, and occupations. For many of these exposures, the health impact is unknown. They are also exposed to noise, heat, air pollution, or stress while the effect of every stressor can be modified by socio-economic conditions, life style, and the dietary patterns. The current understanding of environmental exposures and their potential health impacts has to be improved and new data has to be made available to both the scientific community and policy makers to inform evidence-based policy making for the adequate protection of human health.

Exposome Austria is a new research infrastructure dedicated to the advancement of exposomic technology in Austria and the national hub of the pan-European ESFRI - EIRENE infrastructure that aims to fill the gap in the European infrastructural landscape and to pioneer the first EU infrastructure on the human exposome.

Exposome Austria was kicked-off in January 2022 and the official Lauch Event is scheduled for May 2022 at the University of Vienna.
 

HEADQUARTERS

Austrian National Hub: Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna (UNIVIE)

European Hub: Masaryk University (RECETOX center), Brno, CZ

www.esfri.eu/sites/default/files/ESFRI_roadmap2021_New-Projects_PressRelease.pdf