HEDIMED project has come to an end After a long journey that started in 2020, the HEDIMED project has now officially concluded. Along the way we have gained valuable new insights into the links between the exposome and immune-mediated diseases – with more still to come in the form of collaboration and upcoming publications! We…
Celiac disease, a condition where the immune system reacts abnormally to gluten, used to be considered rare. Today, it’s being diagnosed more than ever – especially in children. But this increase isn’t just due to better testing. Evidence suggests the disease itself is becoming more common, at least in certain countries (King et al. 2020)….
On Tuesday, 22nd May, the HEDIMED team hosted the projet’s final public event — a culmination of years of groundbreaking work exploring how environmental exposures influence immune-mediated diseases. The online event “Environment & Immune-mediated diseases: Exposomic insights from the HEDIMED Project – Final Stakeholder Event” brought together over 100 participants from 17 different European countries!…
Advancing the use of health data in a secure and collaborative manner is critical for driving innovation in exposome research. The European Health Data Space (EHDS) is an EU initiative designed to facilitate the secure sharing and utilization of health data for healthcare, research, and policymaking across member states. It plays a pivotal role in…
Like other immune-mediated diseases, allergic diseases have been increasing in the Western world at the same time as economic and societal development, urbanization, and Western lifestyle in general. Allergic diseases include allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergy, atopic eczema, and as a severe case anaphylaxis. The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) has…
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…