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EPHOR project (EU, Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research)

The EU-funded Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research (EPHOR) aims to further elucidate the complex relationships between environment and disease by developing the concept of the ‘working-life exposome’, which takes into account all occupational and related non-occupational exposures (e.g. lifestyle) throughout the lifespan of an individual. EPHOR brings together an exceptional consortium of exposure, health and data scientists, and technology partners in order to develop knowledge, methods and tools to characterize the working-life exposome at a far deeper level than has previously been attempted. The consortium will combine large-scale pooling of existing data (>40 cohorts; ~ 21 million people) and systematically look at a wide range of exposures and diseases. The information generated will be made available via a ‘working-life toolbox’, allowing scientists to use and enhance the data, methods and models currently in use in exposome research. Simultaneously, new data will be generated, particularly in the area of respiratory disease, by comparing the exposome and health status of workers in a range of industries with that of the general population. Through this effort, in combination with similar data obtained from blood, non-invasive exposome biomarkers on breath will be developed to enable monitoring of lung health and burden of exposure. Exposures in the workplace can lead to many forms of disease including cancer, cardiovascular, and respiratory disease, and the total global burden of disease caused by occupational exposures is estimated at 5-7%, similar to the burden resulting from urban air pollution or obesity. Ensuring a healthy work environment is therefore an important goal for government and industry, however such policies are currently limited to what can be concluded from existing scientific evidence. *

 

Period Start 2019-12-10 existent
Products Industry HEALTH (HUMAN)
  Industry 2 Breath Biopsy® platform
     
Region Region EU (European Union)
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    Address record changed: 2020-12-02
     
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    * Document for »About Section«: Owlstone Medical Ltd.. (12/10/19). "Press Release: Owlstone Medical to Join EU-Funded EPHOR Consortium to Advance Occupational Health Science in Order to Reduce Disease Burden from Workplace Exposure". Cambridge.
     
   
Record changed: 2023-07-10

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