Objective
Immune-mediated, non-communicable diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, allergic diseases and asthma, are chronic disorders in which the interaction between exposome and immune system plays a pivotal role. As prevalence and societal costs of these diseases are rising in the EU, a holistic approach is needed.
The EXIMIOUS consortium—gathering high-level experts in immunology, toxicology, clinical medicine, environmental hygiene, epidemiology, bioinformatics and sensor development—will bring about a new way of assessing the human exposome by linking innovative ways of characterizing and quantifying multiple and combined environmental exposures (exposomics) with high-dimensional immunophenotyping and -profiling platforms to map the (early) immune effects induced by these exposures (immunomics).
In several cohorts—covering the entire lifespan, including prenatal life—we will extensively map exposome, immune system (immunome), other omics and clinical and socio-economic data, using two main methodologies—one starting from the exposome, the other starting from health effects—that ‘meet in the middle’. Novel bioinformatics tools, based on systems immunology and machine learning, will be used to integrate and analyse these huge datasets and to construct ‘immune fingerprints’ that reflect a person’s lifetime exposome and identify ‘immune fingerprints’ that are early signs of poor health and predictors of disease at the individual level.
We will build a multifaceted toolbox for researchers, policy makers, clinicians and the general public containing the exposome/immunome tools developed during the project to help assess the impact of the exposome on the immune system at the level of individuals and populations. This will allow policy makers to grasp the components of the exposome that needs to be prioritized to be able to design targeted preventive policies to reduce healthcare and socioeconomic costs, leading to greater wellbeing for the EU population.
EXIMIOUS will work together with the other projects (EXPANSE, HEAP, ATHLETE, EQUAL-LIFE, LONGITOOLS, EPHOR, REMEDIA and HEDIMED) funded within the Human Exposome programme call H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020, in order to achieve collaboration and synergy.
Fields of science
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinepneumologyasthma
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligenceexpert systems
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineimmunologyautoimmune diseases
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinetoxicology
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
3000 Leuven
Belgium
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Participants (15)
3500 Hasselt
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0456 Oslo
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2100 Kobenhavn
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9052 Gent
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3001 Leuven
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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Participation ended
CB22 3AT Cambridge
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BT7 1NN Belfast
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3400 Hillerod
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9220 Aalborg Ost
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
08035 Barcelona
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8000 Aarhus C
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540139 Targu Mures
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8008 Zurich
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
CB2 1TN Cambridge
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