How pollutants interact inside the body to impact health | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Peng Gao studies the “exposome”—the measure of an individual’s total environmental exposures over the course of their life and how those exposures impact biology and health.

Mapping the “exposome” to protect health.

@penggao.bsky.social, uses high-resolution mass spectrometry and multi-omics to reveal how pollutant mixtures shape asthma, cancer, Alzheimer’s risk, and more.

Read about the work. in the Gao Lab: hsph.me/hpiitbtih31026

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How pollutants interact inside the body to impact health | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Peng Gao studies the “exposome”—the measure of an individual’s total environmental exposures over the course of their life and how those exposures impact biology and health.

“My lab’s mission is to make the invisible visible: We use advanced analytical and computational tools to capture a person’s full chemical fingerprint and connect it to what’s happening inside their body at the deepest biological level,“ says Harvard Chan School’s Peng Gao.

The recording of "Why Genomics Needs Exposomics to Solve the Puzzle" by @penggao.bsky.social is now available: youtu.be/waH9TBO_2kY. This talk is part of @broadinstitute's MPG Primer series. For more info, check out broad.io/MPGPrimer.

The human airborne exposome - Nature Health In this Perspective, Gao argues that the air comprises a complex mixture of pollutants and microorganisms that are not adequately measured in human exposome research.

Air pollution research focuses on a few criteria pollutants, but the air we breathe is a multidimensional exposome. Honored to publish a Nature Health Perspective proposing practical frameworks to move the field forward. Take a look if you are interested! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Biomonitoring Xenobiotics in Human Biospecimens: Challenges, Advances, and the Future of Exposome Characterization - Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Xenobiotics, defined as foreign chemical substances not normally produced by or expected to be present in an organism, are pervasive throughout the human body system. While some xenobiotics have known...

After years of arguing env. monitoring vs biomonitoring, we put it in writing. Short answer: use both. Our new review breaks down the pros/cons and shows how wearables + biospecimens can map the chemical part of the personal exposome. Please take a look: doi.org/10.1007/s441....

Published in @science.org! The Banbury Exposomics Consortium has published “Integrating exposomics into biomedicine.” This pivotal publication establishes a succinct and unified definition of the Exposome and Exposomics for the biomedical research community.
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Assistant / Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with McGill University | 12837963 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Toxicology (L000054

📣 Tenure track job alert! Assistant and associate tenure-track position at McGill University in toxicology and/or pharmacology. I know the department very well and could not speak more highly of the supportive environment it provides and of its leadership!

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