The 2025 ISES & ISEE Joint Annual Meeting convened global leaders in the field of exposure science and environmental health from August 17-20, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the course of three days, the conference featured seminars, workshops, poster sessions, and plenary lectures, which promoted the exchange of ideas and collaborative thinking. Exposomics was not the central theme of the conference, but the whole exposome community was well represented. EIRENE RI, NEXUS and IHEN contributed giving the presentations highlighting the critical role of the exposome in understanding the relationships between environmental exposures and health outcomes. The meeting featured discussions about building a network and fostering collaborations, the development of an Exposome Toolbox, along with the development of the Roadmap for Global Exposome Research.
This meet-up featured key presentations from Jana Klánová PhD, Masaryk University, who leads the Environmental Exposure Assessment Research Infrastructure ( EIRENE), the European Scientific Research Infrastructure ( ESFRI), that supports exposome research in Europe. NEXUS MPI Rima Habre, ScD, University of Southern California discussed the aims and goals of NEXUS.
All EIRENE, NEXUS and IHEN are highly aligned and this event is another example of the many collaborative activities the networks have engaged in. IHEN was developed during the later stages of the European Human Exposome Network ( EHEN), which is an umbrella network of nine research projects funded by the European Union’s framework program for research and innovation. The IHEN initiative is coordinated by Dr. Roel Vermeulen and Martine Vrijheid, PhD, Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona ( ISGlobal). The mission of IHEN is to “… build a world-wide network to collaborate and improve human exposome research. The network - with over 500 members to date from 65 countries, brings together researchers, policymakers, and independent experts to enhance the impact of future studies in this field.”
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The EIRENE IMP project was officially launched during a two-day hybrid kick-off meeting held on 25–26 June 2026 at the Technology Centre Prague. The opening event brought together project partners, representatives of national nodes of the EIRENE RI research infrastructure, and project managers from the beneficiary and the European Commission.
