Dr. Anne Thessen (Associate Professor, Genetics) was a co-author of a recently published titled 鈥淚ntegrating exosomes in biomedicine鈥�.
The Perspective article resulted from her participation in the Banbury Conference on Integrating Exposomics into the Biomedical Enterprise held in December 2023.聽 The conference attendees crafted an operational definition of exposomics and proposed the inclusion of this data in biomedical research studies.聽 From the paper 鈥渢he exposome is posited as an integrated compilation of all physical, chemical, biological, and (psycho) social influences that 鈥渋mpact biology鈥濃��.聽 The authors proposed that gaps in our understanding of human health and disease can be filled by integrating exposomics.