Research into the development of lung damage and chronic complaints after COVID-19

A team of researchers, companies and patient representatives, will investigate the long-term effects of the damage caused by COVID-19 and the body's response to it.

Decoding the exposome, the biggest influencer on health

This is the story of how Utrecht researchers are starting to systematically sequence the environmental factors influencing our health – mapping out the outside world as well as the miniature worlds existing.

Webinar Healthy Urban Spatial Planning on 29 October

The Data- and Knowledge Hub Healthy Urban Living organises a webinar series on Healthy Urban Design. The third webinar, which takes place on 29 October 29 2020, focuses on Healthy Urban Spatial Planning.

Our ultimate goal is that people live healthily for longer

We know far less about the exposome than we do about the human genome. So far, we only understand about half of the disease burden for which we know the environment plays a role. If we want to prevent people from becoming ill, then we need to understand the other half too. We therefore want to systematically analyse the exposome for the first time. We will start with research into the causes of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The techniques and insights from this research will also be applicable to other chronic conditions.