Chris Thio is an epidemiologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University, where he co-leads the Molecular Epidemiology and Data Science group. His research interests lie on the interface of genetics and exposomics, focusing on linking external exposures and gene-environment interplay to biological signatures and (cardiometabolic) disease development.
Chris coordinates the health line within Exposome-NL. He actively supervises the Case-Cohort metabolomics study, the Genetics vs environment project, and the Time-varying exposure mixtures project, aiming to link exposomics and biological omics-layers to cardiometabolic disease. He furthermore oversees the linkage of exposome data to the large population cohorts, CBS and Lifelines, and the subsequent epidemiological analysis.
I hope to bring together researchers, data, and ideas, to boost exposome research and to contribute to the understanding of bio-medical consequences of environmental stressors.
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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