- October 2023 | Prof. A. Heather Eliassen visits Vienna
On Oct 3, we had the honour of welcoming Prof. A. Heather Eliassen, a distinguished US researcher in nutrition and epidemiology from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health.
Heather, who oversees the development of the EIRENE national node “Exposome Austria” as one of its advisory board members, delivered an enlightening lecture on 'Leveraging biomarkers in breast cancer epidemiology' at Medical University of Vienna and later took the time to meet with Exposome Austria consortium members, Prof. Eva Schernhammer and Prof. Benedikt Warth at the Mass Spectrometry Center of the University of Vienna. A day brimming with insights and collaboration.
#ExposomeAustria #BreastCancer #Epidemiology
HIRING NOW! | ERC- and Exposome Austria funded position open!
Within our new projects, we are looking for skilled technician. Apply via email now and become part of a dynamic and collaborative team investigating the impact of toxicants on human health:
Technician for Exposome Austria infrastructure (Lab management, MS library curation, routine measurements – German required) Sounds as exactly for you? Read the posting description here.
- July 2023 | Happy to welcome our collaborator and visiting scientist Julia Kuligowski from La Fe, the Health Research Institute Hospital in Valencia (IIS La Fe). Julia will be supporting our team during the summer working on early-life exposure assessment. Welcome!
- June 30, 2023 | Interview for Rudolphina
(for our German-speaking audience)
Excited to share the latest insights from the interview with Professor Benedikt Warth in the University of Vienna's magazine, Rudolphina. The summarizing
article "Schadstoffe gehen durch den Magen" (Toxins pass through the stomach) introduces one of the "hot topics" in today's science - exposome. Besides the current ERC Project EXPOMET and other topics, it also reveals:
- What are the primary triggers of chronic diseases.
- How exposome research contributes to unraveling the causes of breast cancer.
- Why we should be shifting from the repair to personalized prevention medicine.
#ExposomeResearch #ExposomeAustria #ERC #Expomet
- June 2023 ASMS 2023 | Exposome Austria at Mass Spec conference in Houston
Early this month, three members of the Exposome Austria team at the University of Vienna - Benedikt Warth, Max. L. Feuerstein and Vinicius V. Hernandes - traveled overseas to Houston, Texas, to present current exposomics research at the 71st conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). Much interest in our new methods and results!
While Benedikt contributed as a presider of one the exposomics interest group workshops and gave a talk Exposomic approaches for next-generation human biomonitoring, our team has also a chance to present their posters on the following topics:
- Integrating veterinary drugs and pesticides into a targeted LC-MS/MS exposome-scale
biomonitoring (Md Zakir Hossain et.al., presented by Benedikt Warth)
- Multi-class assessment of chemical exposure in dried blood spots: a pilot study (Vinicius V.
Hernandes et. al.)
- HRMS-based Exposomics for Evaluating Embryonic Exposure and Cross-Placental Transfer of
Xenobiotics (Max L. Feuerstein et.al.)
#ASMSConference2023 #ExposomeAustria #ScientificResearch #EIRENE
- March 20-22, 2023 | 1st retreat of Exposome Austria.
A 3-day interdisciplinary event held in Retz, the winery center of Lower Austria´s Weinviertel region, brought together the members of our consortium, their research groups, and also several invited experts from the scientific community. The retreat agenda featured presentations, tutorials, and introductions about the diverse research projects with the main aim to establish general awareness among the individual groups and institutions of the multidisciplinary consortium.
- May 2022 On May 31st, the Exposome Austria Launch Event took place in the presence of high-ranking representatives of universities and research institutions, the Ministry of Science and Climate Change as well as colleagues and guests in the Small Ceremonial Hall of the University of Vienna.
For more information (in German) check out the faculty website:
https://chemie.univie.ac.at/wissensaustausch/veranstaltungen/exposome-at-2022/
Here you find the recording of the whole event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmFBZzK3Fhw
- April 2022 We are pleased to hear that Exposome Austria consortium member Eva Schernhammer was awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant in the area of circadian clock research and precision prevention. https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/news/default-0f889c8985-2/eva-schernhammer-erhaelt-renommierten-erc-advanced-grant-der-eu/
- March 2022 On May 31 our national research infrastructure will be officially launched via an opening event at the University of Vienna. This is a public event and all interested stakeholders are most welcome! Please register early on: https://veranstaltung.univie.ac.at/exposome
- March 2022 We are pleased to hear that Exposome Austria coordinator Benedikt Warth was awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate the breast cancer exposome: https://chemie.univie.ac.at/wissensaustausch/news/detail/news/erc-consolidator-grant-an-benedikt-warth/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=a496531f7ca13454a9f996428da1f35e
- January 2022 Exposome Austria is kicked off:
Uni Wien: https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/exposome-austria-grosse-forschungsinitiative-zum-einfluss-von-fremdstoffen-auf-die-gesundheit/
Med Uni Wien: https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/ueber-uns/news/news-im-jaenner-2022/exposome-austria-grosse-forschungsinitiative-zum-einfluss-von-fremdstoffen-auf-die-gesundheit/
- December 2021 Official launch of the ESFRI Roadmap 2021: https://www.esfri.eu/esfri-events/launch-2021-esfri-roadmap
- November 2021 The webpage of our European EIRENE RI is live: https://www.eirene-ri.eu/