Ehen Network Launch

11th of February 2020

The nine projects of the European Human Exposome Network had a common launching event on February 10th in Brussels.

The event took place in the European Commission, Charlemagne building, Room Alcide De Gasperi. It was a one-day fruitful event with keynote speeches by exposome experts, Christopher Wild (Emeritus Director, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, FR) and Gary Miller (Vice Dean of Research Strategy and Innovation, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, US). There were also many interesting panel discussions under topics of exposome and urban life, exposome and biological effects, and exposome and the European Green Deal.

The Coordinators of each nine project participated in selected panel discussions together with other experts from multiple fields around the topic of exposome.

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