Laurens is a PhD student at the Metabolomics & Analytics Center, which is a research institution that is part of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research and Leiden University. His work focuses on the analysis of small molecules in plasma samples.
His role in Exposome-NL is to develop, optimize, and apply an analytical workflow to analyze the chemical exposome in plasma samples. This could enhance our understanding of how the exposome influences our health.
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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