A workshop on ‘Exposome expectations in child health’ was held on 16th-20th October in Leiden, Netherlands. This was an intensive and interactive event for slightly over 20 people from multiple sectors of exposome research. Wide-ranging expertise was gathered! HEDIMED took advantage of being involved in this transdisciplinary, important, and future-oriented work. The exposome research on…
In the middle of autumn, we had the pleasure of getting together in Thessaloniki, Greece! The HEDIMED consortium meeting was held on 11th-13th October with the great help of our Thessaloniki partner Gnomon. One of the landmarks of Thessaloniki: The White Tower and the Waterfront promenade Prior to the meeting, three HEDIMED subgroups took a…
The annual meeting of EHEN (European Human Exposome Network) took place in Leuven 30th of May – the 1st of June. Over a hundred members of nine EHEN projects had an opportunity to communicate, network, and disseminate their research. Thank you for your work all organizing team members! It was great that online attending was…
Project consortium meeting took place in 8th-9th December ’22 in Malmo, Sweden. The 2-day meeting consisted of workshops, small working groups, and updates from laboratories and the project in general. This time we managed to gather more than 60 attendees in-place. Toxicant, celiac disease as well as exosome group meetings took place already in pre-meeting…
Some of our key investigators took part in the 19th International Celiac Disease Symposium ICDS2022 in Sorrento, Italy. The symposium is the key forum for scientists, clinicians, health allied professionals, patient associations and industry to meet and exchange knowledge and improve cooperation across care and prevention of celiac disease. The bi-annual meeting aims to mainstream…
Our HEDIMED representatives took part in EHEN network meeting in Barcelona in May. With several abstracts, presentations, project updates and working group sessions being held, the highly interesting scientific meeting was received beneficial and inspiring. The event was hosted by Equal-Life and ATHLETE projects, and the next one will now be hosted by LongITools and…
After a busy first half of the year, we want to wrap up some past events and highlight the upcoming ones. Our science has taken big steps and we are glad to announce that some practical steps, such as samples transfers to different laboratories are in active phase, meaning lab analyses are also ongoing and…
We hope you had a relaxing Christmas break – we are now ready to get back to business and start new activities in the project! Towards the end of last year, HEDIMED admin team was busy with submitting the project’s first periodic report, describing the progress carried out during the first 18 months of the…
12-14th of February 2020 In February 2020 the entire HEDIMED consortium gathered together for the first time in a three-day kick-off meeting in Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland. In a total of 87 participants attended the face-to-face meeting and spent long but productive days getting to know the details of the project and meeting the other…
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…