Substances ingested or inhaled by a pregnant mother can harm a developing foetus, often with lifelong effects. Air pollution by ultrafine particles generated in the environment, often as by-products of fossil fuel combustion, as well as by micro-nanoplastics is a growing public health concern. These particles, due to their small size, can reach the deepest lung regions, cross into the bloodstream and be distributed throughout the body. The EU-funded UPRISE project aims to better understand this threat. The team will create exposure databases and develop assessment models. The consortium will also study pregnant women exposed to these pollutants and investigate adverse outcome at delivery via transcriptomic, epigenetic or mitochondrial mutation analysis. Children will also be followed during the first year of life.
1 January 2025 – 31 December 2029
Call topic: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-ENVHLTH-02-06-two-stage – The role of environmental pollution in non-communicable diseases: air, noise and light and hazardous waste pollution (RIA)
Contact
- Project Coordinator: Imelda Ontoria Oviedo, IISLaFe
- C&D manager: Cathrin Cailliau (c.cailliau@yordasgroup.com), Yordas GmbH
- Project website: www.uprise-horizon.eu
- E-mail: info@uprise-horizon.eu
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