networks

(Sub)projects & harmonisation

16 networks

  • ATHLETE

    Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation
    Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental hazards. The ATHLETE project will measure a wide range of environmental exposures (urban, chemical, lifestyle and social risk factors) during pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence. The project will then link this “early-life exposome” to children’s biological responses and cardiometabolic, respiratory, and mental health. The results will help us to better understand and prevent health damage from environmental agents from the earliest parts of the life course onward.

  • BBMRI-ERIC

    BBMRI-ERIC
    BBMRI-ERIC is a European research infrastructure for biobanking. We bring together all the main players from the biobanking field, researchers, biobankers, industry, and patients, to boost biomedical research.

  • BBMRI-NL

    BBMRI-NL
    Biobanking Netherlands makes biosamples, images and data findable, accessible and usable for health research.

  • EHEN

    European Exposome Network
    The European Human Exposome Network (EHEN) is the world’s largest network of projects studying the impact of environmental exposures across a lifetime - the exposome - on human health. Collectively, the EHEN projects are working in 24 countries across Europe and the USA. There are over 100 data sets being used including cohorts, cross-sectional studies, biobanks, randomised controlled trials (RCTs), case control studies and health or occupational registries.

  • EUChildNetwork

    The EU Child Cohort Network
    The EU Child Cohort Network: A Europe-wide network of cohort studies started in early life Cohort studies started from pregnancy or childhood give the unique opportunity to relate early-life stressors with variation in development, health and disease throughout the life course. Moreover, advanced analytical approaches used in observational studies can help identify causality and potential for early-life interventions on factors that cannot be easily studied in experimental settings. These factors include socioeconomic circumstances, migration, urban environment as well as lifestyle-related determinants and will be given particular focus in our project. We will set up a European pregnancy and childhood cohort, the EU Child Cohort Network, which brings together extensive existing data from more than 250,000 European children and their parents. These cohorts enable studies in multiple generations because of their detailed phenotyping of both parents and children. The network will bring together existing successful multidisciplinary cohort studies, which all started before or during pregnancy or in childhood. Together, they span the full life course and contain detailed phenotypical information as well as biological samples. The EU Child Cohort Network will optimize exploitation of more than 40 available cohort resources in Europe and will enable innovative research on identification of novel markers of early-life stressors related to health trajectories throughout the full life cycle. Although LifeCycle partners and their cohorts have taken the initiative for this unique collaboration, the network is open to other partners with population-based cohorts started in early life, specifically those from Eastern and Southern Europe. To ensure that this will be a Europe-wide, open and sustainable network, which exceeds the LifeCycle Project duration, we will introduce a data sharing platform taking account of ethical, legal and societal implications, we will organize yearly meetings open to all European pregnancy and child cohort researchers and we will start a fellowship programme for exchange between these European cohorts.

  • ICBDSR

    International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects
    The mission of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research is to bring together birth defect programmes from around the world with the aim of conducting worldwide surveillance and research to prevent birth defects and to ameliorate their consequences.

  • Immunolines

    Immunolines – Collaborating cohorts working on Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMID)
    Immunolines is a collaborative effort of clinical and research departments. We provide an overview of the available data‑biobanks in the UMCG from auto-immune and auto-inflammatory diseases together called IMID (Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases). Immunolines aims to facilitate translational research in and across IMID’s within and outside the UMCG. Our cohorts have as a central goal to increase the understanding of immune-mediated diseases including their variety in severity, involved organs and outcome upon treatment. This in order to facilitate translation and personalized care and increase awareness and collaboration on laboratory facilities for sampling and analysis of biological material.

  • LifeCycle

    The LifeCycle Project
    A Europe-wide network of cohort studies started in early life Cohort studies started from pregnancy or childhood give the unique opportunity to relate early-life stressors with variation in development, health and disease throughout the life course. Moreover, advanced analytical approaches used in observational studies can help identify causality and potential for early-life interventions on factors that cannot be easily studied in experimental settings. These factors include socioeconomic circumstances, migration, urban environment as well as lifestyle-related determinants and will be given particular focus in our project. We will set up a European pregnancy and childhood cohort, the EU Child Cohort Network, which brings together extensive existing data from more than 250,000 European children and their parents. These cohorts enable studies in multiple generations because of their detailed phenotyping of both parents and children. The network will bring together existing successful multidisciplinary cohort studies, which all started before or during pregnancy or in childhood. Together, they span the full life course and contain detailed phenotypical information as well as biological samples. The EU Child Cohort Network will optimize exploitation of more than 40 available cohort resources in Europe and will enable innovative research on identification of novel markers of early-life stressors related to health trajectories throughout the full life cycle. Although LifeCycle partners and their cohorts have taken the initiative for this unique collaboration, the network is open to other partners with population-based cohorts started in early life, specifically those from Eastern and Southern Europe. To ensure that this will be a Europe-wide, open and sustainable network, which exceeds the LifeCycle Project duration, we will introduce a data sharing platform taking account of ethical, legal and societal implications, we will organize yearly meetings open to all European pregnancy and child cohort researchers and we will start a fellowship programme for exchange between these European cohorts.

  • LongITools

    LongITools health & environment dynamics
    LongITools is a European research project studying the interactions between the environment, lifestyle and health in determining the risks of chronic cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

  • NCC

    Netherlands Cohort Consortium
    The Netherlands Cohorts Consortium (NCC) combines forces among Dutch population-representative cohort studies enabling an important contribution to Preventive Medicine.

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