Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics
Uncovering how environmental exposures shape human health
The Institute for Exposomic Research has been renamed the Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics. This new name reflects the close integration of exposomic and environmental health research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and emphasizes our ongoing commitment to addressing public health issues driven by climate change.
Researchers place a high value on memory, and without memory how could we function, how could we learn, how could we even find our way home? We judge someone with a good memory to be fortunate and seldom consider any downsides to remembering.
The Institute for Exposomic Research offers educational modules taught by experts at the forefront of exposomics and metabolomics research. Trainees engage in practical exercises and data analysis to reinforce learning in order to stay updated with the latest advancements and trends shaping these rapidly evolving fields.
The 2023 Exposome Day webinar explored how the environment shapes women’s reproductive health over 40. Replay the webinar.
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end.” Lewis Carroll
LinusBio, a 2021 spinoff company from Mount Sinai, announced a Series A venture capital funding to deliver a novel platform that bridges genomics, the environment, and biological response. The company’s platform is based on new methods and technology developed by scientists at the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai.
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end.” Lewis Carroll
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Understanding how our social environment impacts our health is key to unlocking effective interventions that promote health and well-being. Let’s think about this in the context of what gives us joy in life: love, music, and happy memories.
By taking what we’ve learned about discovery research and hypothesis testing, Dr. Robert Wright explains how we can grapple with the millions of factors that make up our environment and the different ways they affect our health.
The second session of the 2022 Lunchtime Chats, featuring Scott Sicherer, MD, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Allergy, Immunology and Pediatrics and Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The first session of the 2022 Lunchtime Chats. This series aims to reach broad audiences to educate families and communities about how the environment shapes health.
With the help of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective and the board game Clue, Dr. Robert Wright explains the differences between exposomics and traditional environmental health research – and the importance of integrating them
Can a health condition or a disease be 80% genetic and 20% environmental? Can we reimagine how we understand the origins of disease?
Is it possible that your risk for disease was set when you were a baby? Evidence shows that our earliest years of life are perhaps the most important for understanding the origins of many health outcomes.
We owe an extraordinary debt to the heroes of September 11, and to their brothers and sisters who survived that day but still bear the physical and mental health effects, as well as the scars and wounds of sorrow and loss. The World Trade Center Health Program is part of how we honor that debt.
Is it possible that your risk for disease was set when you were a baby? Evidence shows that our earliest years of life are perhaps the most important for understanding the origins of many health outcomes.
Dr. Wright explains how the science of exposomics is transforming our understanding of environmental exposures on health trajectories, both for children and adults.
An open discussion on the important role that the environment – from where you live, to the air you breathe, to the products you put on your body – plays in your family’s health.